Agustín Martínez

Biography

Agustín Martínez(born 1975) is a Spanish noir fiction novelist and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2021 Premio Planeta for La Bestia, written alongside Antonio Mercero and Jorge Díaz under the pen name Carmen Mola. Born in 1975 in Lorca, Murcia, he studied Image and Sound at the Complutense University of Madrid. Initially dedicated to advertising, he began to write television series screenplays afterwards. His first novel, Monteperdido, was published in 2015. It was followed by La mala hierba (2017). Both were published by Plaza & Janés , linked to Penguin Random House.