Esteban Navarro


Esteban Navarro Soriano is a Spanish novelist and journalist known as a contributor to the newspapers Diario del AltoAragón and El País. He is considered by Random House as one of the great names of the Spanish crime novel.

Career

In 2011 Soriano earned numerous sales successes with the national police trilogy Moisés Guzmán, protagonist to date of three novels: El Buen Padre, Los fresones rojos and Los ojos del escritor. Ediciones B has acquired the rights to publish the novel La casa de enfrente, work in the digital edition went on to achieve top sales for several months and has been published on paper in Spain and South America for Ediciones B. In September 2013 he became the best-selling novel on Amazon Mexico, reaching number one authors ahead of the likes of Dan Brown.
In January 2013, he was a finalist in the 69th edition of the Premio Nadal with the novel La noche de los peones.
He has won awards for his 2008 novella I Katharis and his 2011 novel The Stone Raft He has also been nominated for other awards.
Navarro is a promoter and organizer of various literary contests, and a jury member of several literary contests based in Huesca.

Personal life

Navarro has been based in Huesca since 2001.

List of works

AñoTítuloEditorial
2017El club de la éliteMenoscuarto
2017Una historia de policíasPlaya de Ákaba
2017El reactor de BeringAvant Editorial
2016Los ojos del escritorEdiciones B
2016El buen padreEdiciones B
2015La puerta vacíaEdiciones B
2015Diez días de julioEdiciones B
2014Los fresones rojosEdiciones B
2014Los crímenes del abecedarioEdiciones B
2013La noche de los peonesEdiciones B
2012La casa de enfrenteEdiciones B

Awards won

  1. 2013. VIII Award short story Ciudad de Caspe
  2. 2013. XXII Story Award Manuel Barbadillo Ateneo de Sanlúcar de Barrameda
  3. 2013. Finalist 69th Edition Premio Nadal Barcelona
  4. 2012. Novel Contest IV city of Almeria Almería
  5. 2012. II Concurso Literario de Relato Breve Paperblanks Dublín
  6. 2011. Certamen de Novela Saramago La balsa de piedra San Bartolomé
  7. 2011. III Concurso literario policía y cultura de Huesca Huesca
  8. 2011. V Concurso de Relatos Cortos Ciudad de Huesca Huesca
  9. 2011 VII Concurso Literario de Relato Corto Ciudad de Caspe Caspe
  10. 2011. IV muestra Criptshow festival de relato de terror, fantasía y ciencia ficción Badalona
  11. 2011. XXVII Story Contest Villa de Mazarrón-Antonio Segado del Olmo Mazarrón
  12. 2011 XIV Certamen de Relato Corto de Altorricón Altorricón
  13. 2010. XV Certamen de Cuentos Navideños de Ampuero Ampuero
  14. 2010. Casting Literario de Novela Fantástica de OnLine Studio Productions Madrid
  15. 2010. IV Concurso Literario de Relato Corto Ciudad de Caspe Caspe
  16. 2010. Primer Certamen de novela Escribiendo Barcelona
  17. 2009. XIII Certamen Literario Villa San Esteban de Gormaz
  18. 2008. I Premio de novela corta Katharsis 2008 Revista literaria Katharsis.
  19. 2008. II Concurso de Narrativa Corta Oscafriki de Huesca
  20. 2007. X Premio de Novela Ciudad de Badajoz
  21. 2007. XV Police Day Award Cáceres

    Generación Kindle

Esteban Navarro is considered the creator of the term Generation Kindle, referring to writers who emerged on the Kindle digital platform. This "Generación Kindle" brings together authors who, although they are of different ages and styles, publish their works through Kindle Direct Publishing. The term has been embraced by the media to refer to all the authors who publish and succeed through ebooks.

Controversy

In 2017, the Directorate-General of the Police opened an Information File of him in his capacity as an official of the National Police after having published his novel A history of police, although the author unlinked the file with the publication of this work.
This news had a lot of media coverage even in international newspapers, such as The Guardian.
In the indictment they pointed out that "some officials of the police station in Huesca" were worried that their activity in social networks would damage the image of the body to which it belongs.