Festival internazionale
di letteratura a Venezia
prossima edizione: 15 18 aprile 2026

David Uclés Spain

Friday April 17 - 7.00 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita- Emanuele Severino

Premio giovani Incroci - Albero d'Oro

David Uclés

converses with Adriàn Sàez (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

In collaboration with Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati, Fondazione dell’Albero d’Oro, Neri Pozza Editore

The conversation will be in Spanish

David Uclés (Úbeda, 1990) is a writer, musician, illustrator and translator from German, French and English. His literary work, shaped by magical realism, has been translated into seventeen languages. He recently won the 82nd Premio Nadal for La ciudad de las luces muertas (2026). He is the author of La península de las casas vacías (2025), which has gone through more than thirty-two editions, sold 300,000 copies, and received praise from Joaquín Sabina, Iñaki Gabilondo, Ian Gibson, Leonardo Padura and Irene Vallejo. The novel, published in Italy by Neri Pozza, has won around twenty awards, including the Cálamo, Andalucía de la Crítica, Dulce Chacón and San Clemente prizes; it was voted Best Spanish Novel of the Year by Babelia (the cultural supplement of El País) and is set to be adapted for television. It was also Spain’s nominee for the European Union Prize for Literature and a finalist for the Vargas Llosa Biennial. Uclés has also published the novels Emilio y Octubre (2020) and El llanto del león, and has been awarded the Leonardo and Montserrat Roig writing grants. He has worked in Germany, Switzerland, Spain and France. He writes for «La Vanguardia», «El País», «Diario Jaén» and «Cadena SER».