Boris Quercia Martinic was born in Santiago, Chile in 1966 as the grandson of Italian and Yugoslav immigrants. He is an actor, director, screenwriter and novelist. He studied theatre at the University of Chile in the 1980s (the rest he taught himself). In one of the greatest successes of the Chilean theatre, THE BLACK ESTER (“La Negra Ester”), he acted as Roberto Parra (the brother of Violeta Parra). Quercia is the director of SEX WITH LOVE (“Sexo con Amor”), one of the most watched films of the local cinema, and THE EIGHTIES (“Los 80”), the most highly-awarded series of Chilean television. As a writer he won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière 2016 with his second novel.