Domingo Villar

Domingo Villar (born 1971) is a Spanish crime writer. He was born and raised in Vigo, Galicia and now lives in Madrid. He has published two acclaimed bestsellers featuring Inspector Leo Caldas, a dyed-in-the-wool Galician detective, and Rafael Estévez, his down to earth assistant from Zaragoza who finds it difficult to cope with the Galician sense of irony. Both novels were originally published in Galician before being translated into Spanish by the author himself. They have also been translated into several other European languages.[1]

Works

2006: Ojos de agua (Spanish)

  • (Galician: Ollos de auga)
  • (English : Water-blue eyes, tr. Martin Schifino)
  • (German: Wasserblaue Augen, tr. Peter Kultzen)
  • (Italian: Occhi di acqua, tr. S. Sichel)
  • (Swedish: Nattens mörka toner: Ett fall för kommissarie Leo Caldas, tr. Lena E. Heyman)

2009: La playa de los ahogados

  • (Galician: A praia dos afogados)
  • (English: Death on a Galician Shore, tr. Sonia Soto)
  • (German: Strand der Ertrunkenen, tr. Carsten Regling)
  • (Swedish: De drunknades strand, tr. Lena E. Heyman)
  • (French: La plage des noyés, tr. Dominique Lepreux)

La playa de los ahogados was brought to the screen in 2015 by the director Gerardo Herrero, based on a filmscript by the author.[2]

Prizes
  • Premio Sintagma (2007)[3]
  • Premio Antón Losada Diéguez (2010)[4]
  • Libro del año por la Federación de Libreros de Galicia (2010)[5]
  • Premio Brigada 21 for best novel published in Spanish (2009)[6]
  • XXV Premio Nacional "Cultura viva" Narrativa (2016)[7]

References
  1. "Domingo Villar - Little, Brown Book Group". littlebrown.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2017-11-15. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
  2. Extract from the film -
  3. El escritor Domingo Villar obtiene el I Premio Sintagma con la novela 'Ojos de agua' –
  4. El premio Losada Diéguez ha recaído en Carpintero y Domingo Villar - La Region (gal)
  5. Los libreros entregaron los premios Irmandade do libro - Federación de Libreros de Galicia
  6. “La playa de los ahogados”, de Domingo Villar, obtiene el Premio Brigada 21 - Periodistas en español
  7. Domingo Villar, premio Cultura Viva de Narrativa -



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