Santiago Lopo

Santiago Lopo, born in Vigo in 1974, is a Galician writer and translator.

He currently works as a French teacher at the Escola Oficial de Idiomas of Pontevedra. He began his professional career translating film scripts in English for TV. Since 2000 he has been a contributing writer for the magazine Unión Libre, where he has published several articles and translations.

Novels

• Game over, 2007, Biblos Clube de Lectores.
• Peaxes, 2009, Xerais.
• Hora zulú, 2012, Editorial Galaxia.
• A Diagonal dos Tolos, 2014, Editorial Galaxia.

Short stories

• Sorrí, Nené, sorrí!, 2014, in Grial: revista galega de cultura, No. 202.
• A voz das nereidas, 2016, Editorial Elvira.

Translations

• O meu criado e mais eu. Citomegalovirus, originally by Hervé Guibert. French-Galician translation with Xavier Queipo, 1998, Xerais.

Novels

• Hora zulú, 2015, Mar Maior.

• VI Premio de Novela por Entregas de La Voz de Galicia in 2006, for Game over.
• XXIV Premio García Barros in 2012, for Hora zulú.
• VIII Premio Narrativa Breve Repsol in 2014, for A Diagonal dos Tolos.