Santiago Lopo

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

Biography
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.
 * A arte de trobar, 2017, Xerais.
 * A carteira, 2021, Xerais.

Short stories

 * Sorrí, Nené, sorrí!, 2014, in Grial: revista galega de cultura, No. 202.
 * A voz das nereidas, 2016, Editorial Elvira.
 * Siméon de la Manche, 2018, in Contra o vento. 30 anos do Premio Manuel García Barros, Editorial Galaxia.
 * Nómades, 2021, in O libro da música, Editorial Galaxia.
 * A pantasma da insua, 2023, 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.

Awards

 * 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.
 * Premio Xerais 2017, for A arte de trobar.
 * XXXVII Premio Antón Losada Diéguez in 2022, for A carteira.