Claudia Piñeiro

Claudia Piñeiro won the Clarin Prize and is South America’s bestselling crime novelist. After working as a professional accountant, Piñeiro became a journalist, playwright and television scriptwriter and in 1992 won the prestigious Pléyade journalism award. She has more recently turned to fiction; All Yours (finalist for the 2003 Planeta Prize) was her debut novel. Other titles include Elena Sabe, Un Ladrón Entre Nosotros (winner of the Norma-Fundalectura Youth Literature Prize) and Thursday Night Widows. Her books have been translated into French, Italian and German.