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Juan Bonilla is the author of the following short story collections: El que apaga la luz (Pre-Textos, 1994), La compañía de los solitarios (Pre-Textos, 2000), La noche del Skylab (Espasa Calpe, 2000; Booket, 2003), Je me souviens (Algaida, 2005), a special homage to G. Perec, El estadio de mármol (Seix Barral, 2005) and the compilations Basado en hechos reales (Berenice, 2006) and Tanta gente sola (Seix Barral, 2009), Mario Vargas Llosa NH Short Fiction Award, and  finalist Booksellers Prize 2009.

His collaborations with the press are compiled in El arte del yo-yo (Pre-Textos, 1996), La holandesa errante (Ediciones Nobel, 1999), Academia Zaratustra (Plaza&Janés, 1999) and Teatro de variedades (Renacimiento, 2002).

He has also published the poetry collections Partes de guerra (1994), El belvedere (2002) and Buzón Vacío (2006), all of these with Pre-Textos.

As a novelist, he has published Nadie conoce a nadie (Ediciones B, 1996), which was made into a very successful film, Cansados de estar muertos (Espasa-Calpe, 1998), and Los príncipes nubios (Seix Barral, 2003),  Biblioteca Breve Award and Prix littéraire des Jeunes Européens 2009. He has also written a children’s book: Yo soy, yo eres, yo es (Booket, 1999). His non-fiction works are La Costa del Sol en la hora pop (Fundación José Manuel Lara, 2007), a lucid and scathing analysis of the origin of the area’s tourism phenomenon, and La vida es un sueño pop. Vida y obra de Terenci Moix (RBA, 2012), awarded the Gaziel Award 2011 for Biographies and Memoirs. 

His latest published work is a novel Prohibido entrar sin pantalones (Seix Barral, April 2013).