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Skin (in English)
Sergio del Molino
Synopsis "Skin (in English)"
Skin is the border of our body and, as such, it is that through which we relate to others but also what separates us from them. Through skin, we speak: when we display it, when we tan it, when we tattoo it, or when we mute it by covering it with clothes. Skin exhibits social relationships, displays power and the effects of power, explains many things about who we are, how others perceive us and how we exist in the world. And when it gets sick, it turns us into monsters. In Skin, Sergio del Molino speaks of these monsters in history and literature whose lives have been tormented by bad skin: Stalin secretly taking a bath in his dacha, Pablo Escobar getting up late and shutting himself in the shower, Cyndi Lauper performing a commercial for a medicine promising relief from skin disease, Updike sunburned in the Caribbean, Nabokov writing to his wife from exile, 'Everything would be wonderful, if it weren't for the damn skin.' Suffering himself from psoriasis, Sergio del Molino includes himself in this gallery of monsters through whose stories he delves into the mysteries of skin. What is for some a badge of pride and for others a source of anguish and shame, skin speaks of us and for us when we don't speak with words.
(Madrid, 1979) Escritor y periodista español. Ganador del Premio Alfaguara 2024 por su novela «Los alemanes», es además autor de dos ensayos narrativos cruciales sobre la despoblación y «la idea de país»: La España vacía (2016), con el que ganó el premio al mejor ensayo del Gremio de Libreros y el Premio Cálamo, además de entrar en las listas de «mejores del año» de toda la prensa cultural; y Contra la España vacía (2021). Antes se había alzado con los premios Ojo Crítico y Tigre Juan con La hora violeta (2013) y después con el Premio Espasa gracias a Lugares fuera de sitio (2018). Además es columnista del diario El País y colaborador de Onda Cero Radio, entre otros medios. Sus obras han aparecido en inglés, italiano, francés, griego, alemán y chino, entre otros idiomas, y en más de quince países.
