Draft:Samuel Lopez-Barrantes

[[File:Samuel Lopez-Barrantes Portrait Paris 2024.jpg|thumb|Samuél Lopez-Barrantes 2024 taken by Augusta Sagnelli in Paris

Languages English, French, Spanish]] Samuél Lopez-Barrantes (born 1988 in Ganges, France) is a Spanish-American writer based in Paris.

His first novel Slim and The Beast was published by Inkshares in 2015. His second novel, The Requisitions was published independently in 2024 by his own imprint Kingdom, Anywhere, which he started with his wife, the photographer, Augusta Sagnelli.

From 2015 - 2022, Samuél was a leading member of the Paris-based indie-pop band, Slim and The Beast in which he was a lead vocalist, pianist and harmonica player.

Samuél lives in Paris, where he gives literary walks and co-hosts the Paris Writers' Salon with author, John Baxter.

Education
The University of Vermont (2010): BA (European Studies). Honors College Thesis: "The Jewish Councils of Poland: The Evolution of Historical Interpretation.""

Awards: GRS Outstanding Graduating Senior in The European Studies Program.

University College London (2012): MA (European Society). Dissertation: "The Humanness of Cruelty: Alfred Adler, Viktor Frankl & the Psychology of Genocide."

Vermont College of Fine Arts (2020) MFA (Creative Writing). Critical Thesis: "History is Dead! Long Live History! Postmodernism & Historiographic Metafiction."

Novels
The Requisitions (Kingdom Anywhere, 2024)''. A historical metafiction set in Łódź, Poland during the Nazi Occupation.''


 * "In this work of historical metafiction, our present-day narrator recounts the story of Viktor Bauman, a disillusioned academic forced into the Łódź Ghetto, Elsa Dietrich, a captive Gestapo secretary, and Lieutenant Carl Becker, a troubled policeman whose fixation with Elsa is pushing him towards unspeakable cruelty."

Slim and The Beast (Inkshares, 2015)''. A coming of age story about brotherhood and the challenges of male intimacy set in Durham & Chapel Hill, North Carolina.''


 * "With dexterous prose and unflinching humor, wrapped in the rich dialect of the South, the conversations at Lockart’s traverse art, love, sex, and philosophy, warily observing the savage storm and the ghosts it seems to be dredging up. A remarkable first novel that recalls the liveliness of Wells Tower and packs the punch of Denis Johnson, Slim and The Beast lays out what’s at stake in a friendship, recalling the decisions we make on the edge of adulthood that define the person we become."