Santiago Roncagliolo (Lima, 1975) is a writer, translator, and screenwriter. His books have sold over one hundred thousand copies and have been translated into more than ten languages.

His novel Red April (2006) made him the youngest winner of the Alfaguara Prize for Fiction, and Shame (2004) was adapted into a film. He has also written the novels The Prince of the Alligators (2002), So Close to Life (2010), and The Uruguayan Lover (2012), which deals with the writer Enrique Amorim and his relationship with Lorca; the short story collection Growing Up Is a Sad Profession (2003); and the reportage The Fourth Sword (2007).

He is the author of film and television scripts, literary translations, and children's books. He collaborates with the radio network RNE, the newspaper El País, and other media outlets in Latin America and Europe.

In 2013 he published his novel Óscar y las mujeres (2013), first in digital format in nine installments and then in paper.