Claudia Piñeiro

Claudia Piñeiro is a renowned scriptwriter and author, hailing from Argentina. She has received numerous national and international accolades for her work, including the prestigious Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize for her novel "Crack in the Wall". Piñeiro is particularly celebrated for her crime and mystery novels, which have become bestsellers in her home country.

Piñeiro was born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires province, and for many years, she worked as a journalist, playwright, and television scriptwriter. Her writing portfolio includes literary crime novels, all of which have achieved significant commercial success in Latin America and have been translated into multiple languages.

Her latest novel available in English, "A Crack in the Wall," is a testament to her storytelling prowess and follows the success of her previous works, "All Yours" and "Thursday Night Widows," both of which were also published by Bitter Lemon Press. Piñeiro's "Thursday Night Widows" was adapted into a film and won the Clarin Prize for Fiction. Piñeiro currently resides in Buenos Aires and continues to captivate readers with her thought-provoking and engaging novels.