Marcelo Simonetti

Marcelo Simonetti loves cooking, photography and football. He is a writer, who over the years has known how to play like a master within the fields of adult narrative and children’s and young people’s literature. He ventures into the world of letters with a mid-field goal; in 1999 he won the oldest Hispanic story competition: La Felguera (Asturias, Spain) with his tale “El Umbral” (“The Doorway”). He later won the Municipal de Santiago award (Chile, 2003), Casa de América (Spain, 2005), Best Literary Works (Chile, 2014), Marta Brunet (2019) and the National Dramaturgy Show (2019).

As a journalist he has cultivated report and chronicle genres. He has also uses football as a window from where to look at the world by writing sport articles. Started writting children’s literature in 2013 with Tito, a novel whose English version was published in 2017.

The poetry in his texts, an overflowing imagination and the humanity that seeps through his stories, have positioned him into a vital and necessary writer of our times.

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