Renato Cisneros

Renato Cisneros (Lima, 1976) is a journalist, broadcaster and writer from Peru now living in Madrid. His breakthrough novel The Distance Between Us (Charco Press, 2018) sold over 35,000 copies in Peru alone. It was shortlsted for the Mario Vargas Llosa Biannual Award, longlisted for the Prix Médicis (2017) and was the winner of the Prix Transfuge du Meilleur Roman Hispanique (2017). Its prequel, You Shall Leave Your Land (Charco, 2023) was also a bestseller in Spain and Latin America. The World We Saw Burning, runner-up for the prestigious Alfaguara Prize (2023), is his most recent novel.