María Zaragoza (Madrid, 1982)
In 2014 she participated in the feature film adaptation of her story Realidades de humo, which the director Joaquín O. Loustaunau directed in Mexico and premiered in 2016. She has written the scripts for A candidate for the end of the world (Margarita Xirgu Award for best script radio 2019, produced and broadcast by RNE in 2020: https://www.rtve.es/play/audios/ficcion-sonora/ficcion-sonora-candidato-para-fin-mundo-maria-zaragoza/5571447/), Mi Mama Me Mima (dir. Marc Romero, produced by The Pride of My House, in post-production), Agonía (dir. Eulàlia Ramon, produced by Atrece Creaciones, 2024), Perpetua Navidad Azul (dir. Marina Aparicio, Galatea Productions, in preparation ), has participated in the script and documentary work of the documentary I am Cloe, I exist (Long documentary produced by Globomundi and Atrece creations, dir. Fiorela Gianuzzi, to be released). She is currently immersed in several feature film and short film projects.

She wrote Divine Accounts (dir. Eulàlia Ramon, produced Atrece Creaciones, a short film that closed the Sitges International Festival in 2022 and which has been nominated for the 38th Goya Awards in the category of best fiction short film. This short film continues his successful journey through national and international festivals, having already participated in some as important as the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF) or the Imagineindia International Film Festival.

Beyond the script, she has almost twenty-five years of literary career behind, with awards as recognized as the Azorín novel, published by Editorial Planeta. She is the author of the books Essays on an incomplete character (Tau, 2000), Amores que matan (Psyco-Tau Novel Prize, Tau, 2002), Realidades de humo (Belacqva, 2007), Tiempos Gemelos (Belacqva, 2008), Dicen that you are dead (Ateneo Joven de Sevilla Novel Award, Algaida, 2010), Germans blow their heads off for love (Ateneo Ciudad de Valladolid Novel Award, Algaida, 2012), Constanza Barbazul (Sigueleyendo, 2013), Imaginary Diary of the tiger woman (Hunter, 2015), Avenida de la Luz (Minotauro, 2015), Sortilegio (Minotauro, 2017) and The library of fire (Azorin Novel Prize 2022, Planeta).

Together with the cartoonist Didac Pla, she published the comic Cuna de cuervos (Parramón, 2009), together with El Rubencio, the illustrated book Baba Yagá (Aristas Martínez, 2020, Torre del Agua Award), as well as Hell is a teenage girl (Minotauro , 2023) with the illustrator AxMxAxL. Her literary work has been translated into various languages ​​and throughout 2024 the publication of the translations of The Library of Fire into Italian (Garzanti Libri), Russian (Phantom Press) and Bulgarian (Emas Publishing) is planned, as well as the reissue in Mexico by Constanza Barbazul, within Tales to Keep Sleeping (Resistencia). Likewise, she has been included in twenty short story anthologies and her work has been the subject of numerous communications in university courses and meetings.

Her work has been recognized, among others, by the Women’s Institute, Onda Cero and La Ser. In 2023, the Community Board of Castilla la Mancha named her an adopted daughter.
She was a scholarship recipient at the third class of the Antonio Gala Foundation for young creators and has been a narrative, dramaturgy and scriptwriting tutor at the institution for six years. Currently, she teaches a subject in the master’s degree in creative writing at The Core Film and TV school, and writes articles for ManchaInformation.com, work that she combines with her personal film and literature projects.