Antonio Malpica
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Antonio Malpica Maury was born in Mexico City on 8 March 1967. He studied computer engineering at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in the 1980s but turned to literature, and in 1988-1989 he founded the literary magazine Acimut. With Roberto Cravioto and his brother Javier Malpica he co-founded the independent theatre company In-Crescendo, which has staged his plays. He has published more than fifty books, mostly novels and stories for children and young adults, along with adult fiction and theatre. His prizes include the Rosario Castellanos short-novel prize, the Emilio Rabasa national novel prize (2005), the Premio Norma de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil (2011) and the White Ravens selection (2013). In 2015 he became the first Mexican writer to win the Premio Iberoamericano SM de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil.
Universe(s)
- Core Canon books: 5
- Current rank: #101 in the official ranking
- Weighted average: 4.28
- Award recognitions: None recorded
Books
Aggregate across all universes
- Total Core Canon books across all universes: 5 books
- Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)
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Siete esqueletos decapitados (2009) · El libro de los héroes Core Canon
Nocturno Belfegor (2011) · El libro de los héroes Core Canon
El llamado de la estirpe (2013) · El libro de los héroes Core Canon
El destino y la espada (2016) · El libro de los héroes Core Canon
Principio y fin (2017) · El libro de los héroes Core Canon