Who are the authors behind Carmen Mola? Revealed the secret of the mysterious writer

Carmen Mola. It is the most repeated name in recent hours, that of an ‘author’ who had remained anonymous until her great work has made it come to light.

In reality, Carmen is not Carmen, but Agustín (Martínez), Jorge (Díaz) and Antonio (Mercero). Three writers and screenwriters who have achieved the prize of one million euros awarded by the Planet Award 2021.

On ‘Now what I read‘they spoke to her when her identity was still a secret. “If -my identity- is revealed, I will live it with discomfort, but naturally“, she commented, recognizing that the important thing for her is that people” read in her novels. “

“I can be a famous writer, a provincial civil servant, a university professor or a truck driver who travels Europe and writes in the rest areas of the freeways. What I do tell you is that my mother does not know that I am Carmen Mola“, he assured.

The so-called ‘Elena Ferrante Spanish‘She was born in Madrid in 1973 and was a university professor, and so far the only known biographical data. A reader of the black and police genre and influenced by great masters of the genre such as Fred Vargas, Lemaitre, Alicia Giménez Bartlett, Toni Hill, Víctor del Árbol or Lorenzo Silva, Carmen Mola is the pseudonym she uses to remain anonymous and thus be able to “follow living quietly. “

Antonio Mercero Santos (Madrid, 1969) is a journalist, scriptwriter and writer and since he began his career as a screenwriter in such well-known series as ‘Farmacia de Guardia’ or ‘Hospital Central’, he has been combining writing with his facet as a screenwriter and now he works precisely in the screen adaptation of ‘The Gypsy Bride’.

Jorge Diaz (Alicante, 1962) is also a screenwriter and writer and has participated in series such as Hospital Central ‘,’ Víctor Ros’ or ‘Acacias 38’. In the field of narrative, he has written novels such as ‘The Elephant Numbers’, ‘The Wandering Justice’, both of a historical nature, or “I have in me all the dreams of the world”.

Agustin Martinez (Lorca, 1975) is a Spanish noir novelist and screenwriter. In her interviews as Carmen Mola, they confessed that she wrote for fun, because she had always been a great fan of reading and she imagined herself writing a novel.

When the wish came true, she shaped her protagonist, the police inspector, like a sculptor Elena Blanco, whose first case to be investigated was the murder of Susana, a young gypsy woman whose death occurs in the same circumstances as that of her sister Lara seven years ago, that first case was the plot of her debut feature, ‘The gypsy bride’.

The novel was a bestseller –more than 150,000 copies sold and published in ten countries-, a circumstance that encouraged the author to continue with her literary career, in which she published successively ‘La red Ppura’ and ‘La Nena’, and with only three novels the mysterious writer has been among the names of the renewal of the Spanish crime novel.