Esteban Navarro

Esteban Navarro Soriano (born 18 March 1965, in Moratalla) is a Spanish novelist.

Career
In 2011 Soriano earned numerous sales successes with the national police trilogy Moisés Guzmán, protagonist to date of three novels: El Buen Padre, Los fresones rojos  and Los ojos del escritor. Ediciones B has acquired the rights to publish the novel La casa de enfrente, work in the digital edition went on to achieve top sales for several months and has been published on paper in Spain and South America for Ediciones B. In September 2013 he became the best-selling novel on Amazon Mexico, reaching number one authors ahead of the likes of Dan Brown.

In January 2013, he was a finalist in the 69th edition of the Premio Nadal with the novel La noche de los peones.

He has won awards for his 2008 novella I Katharis and his 2011 novel The Stone Raft He has also been nominated for other awards.

Navarro is a promoter and organizer of various literary contests, and a jury member of several literary contests based in Huesca. There are articles written by him in newspapers such as Diario del AltoAragón   and El País.

Personal life
Navarro has been based in Huesca since 2001.

List of works

 * 2024 Montesblancos
 * 2023 Baco
 * 2023 Medianoche
 * 2022 La cuarta memoria
 * 2022 La suerte del debutante
 * 2021 Un año de prácticas
 * 2020 El altruista
 * 2020 Rock Island
 * 2020 Verdugos
 * 2020 Natasha
 * 2019 El ajedrecista
 * 2019 La rubia del Tívoli
 * 2019 El cónsul infiltrado
 * 2018 El apagón
 * 2018 Penumbra
 * 2017 El club de la élite
 * 2017 La marca del pentágono
 * 2017 Una historia de policías
 * 2016 El reactor de Bering
 * 2016 Ángeles de granito
 * 2015 La gárgola de Otín
 * 2015 Los ojos del escritor
 * 2015 El buen padre
 * 2014 La puerta vacía
 * 2014 Diez días de julio
 * 2013 Los fresones rojos
 * 2013 Los crímenes del abecedario
 * 2012 La noche de los peones
 * 2011 La casa de enfrente

Awards won

 * 1) 2013. VIII Award short story Ciudad de Caspe
 * 2) 2013. XXII Story Award Manuel Barbadillo Ateneo de Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Accésit)
 * 3) 2013. Finalist 69th Edition Premio Nadal Barcelona
 * 4) 2012. Novel Contest IV city of Almeria Almería
 * 5) 2012. II Concurso Literario de Relato Breve Paperblanks  Dublín
 * 6) 2011. Certamen de Novela Saramago La balsa de piedra  San Bartolomé (Las Palmas)
 * 7) 2011. III Concurso literario policía y cultura de Huesca Huesca
 * 8) 2011. V Concurso de Relatos Cortos Ciudad de Huesca Huesca
 * 9) 2011 VII Concurso Literario de Relato Corto Ciudad de Caspe Caspe
 * 10) 2011. IV muestra Criptshow festival de relato de terror, fantasía y ciencia ficción Badalona
 * 11) 2011. XXVII Story Contest Villa de Mazarrón-Antonio Segado del Olmo Mazarrón
 * 12) 2011 XIV Certamen de Relato Corto de Altorricón Altorricón
 * 13) 2010. XV Certamen de Cuentos Navideños de Ampuero Ampuero
 * 14) 2010. Casting Literario de Novela Fantástica de OnLine Studio Productions Madrid
 * 15) 2010. IV Concurso Literario de Relato Corto Ciudad de Caspe Caspe
 * 16) 2010. Primer Certamen de novela Escribiendo Barcelona
 * 17) 2009. XIII Certamen Literario Villa San Esteban de Gormaz
 * 18) 2008. I Premio de novela corta Katharsis 2008 Revista literaria Katharsis.
 * 19) 2008. II Concurso de Narrativa Corta Oscafriki de Huesca
 * 20) 2007. X Premio de Novela Ciudad de Badajoz
 * 21) 2007. XV Police Day Award Cáceres

Generación Kindle
Esteban Navarro is considered the creator of the term Generation Kindle, referring to writers who emerged on the Kindle digital platform. This "Generación Kindle" brings together authors who, although they are of different ages and styles, publish their works through Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). The term has been embraced by the media to refer to all the authors who publish and succeed through ebooks.

Controversy
In 2017, the Directorate-General of the Police opened an Information File of him in his capacity as an official of the National Police after having published his novel A history of police, although the author unlinked the file with the publication of this work.

This news had a lot of media coverage even in international newspapers, such as The Guardian. In the indictment they pointed out that "some officials of the police station in Huesca" were worried that their activity in social networks would damage the image of the body to which it belongs.