Andrés Palladino

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Spanish-language fiction and essays for international publishing lists: a prize-winning novel, stories of memory and belonging, contemporary fiction and a distinct strand of writing on knowledge and power.

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El instante inútil

Mystery and suspense novel

A recording in Madrid’s Retiro Park. A girl who disappears. Images that become less certain with every viewing.

Prize-winning novel · Spanish publication announced

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Los que vuelven tarde

Short-story collection

Six stories in which the past returns to unsettle lives that seemed to have moved beyond it. Family memory, identity and experience pull in different directions.

Argentine edition · Editorial Caburé, 2026 · Six stories

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Novels and short fiction

Estado: vacío

Novella

After their mother’s death, a woman and her brother clear out the family flat. Over twelve days, the practical work of deciding what to keep and what to give away becomes a way of living through grief.

Unpublished · Spanish-language original

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El resto del absoluto

Literary novel

A young philosophy student enters a relationship with Simona in which desire, commands and writing unsettle what he believes he knows about himself and other people.

Unpublished · Spanish-language original

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El viaje de Iker

Social novel

Iker Parrasco, an ONCE lottery seller with severely impaired vision, makes his way through a city that calls itself smart and inclusive. The distance between recorded accessibility and life on the street shapes every decision.

Unpublished · Spanish-language original

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La forma del error

Speculative suspense · Long short story

A forensic analyst receives a recording that seems to carry the breathing of a dead colleague. Tracking its voice brings her into conflict with a system that demands people conform to its records.

Unpublished · Spanish-language original

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Essays: knowledge, society and power

Las sociedades que aprenden

Political and historical essay

What does a society need in order to recognise that it has been wrong? A political history of dissent, warnings and the institutions that make revision possible.

Unpublished · Spanish-language original

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La ventana humana

Philosophical and social essay

A decision may remain open to formal review when its consequences can no longer be undone. How long do we actually retain control?

Unpublished · Spanish-language original

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La forma que resiste

Philosophical essay

Changing a conviction can feel like a threat to the person who holds it. An essay on knowledge, identity and the transformations that make continuity possible.

Unpublished · Spanish-language original

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El gran juego

Political and sports thriller

A former football star, hunted across Camp Nou, carries a memory device that others want back. Behind the spectacle, corruption turns the game’s most passionate loyalties into instruments of power.

Published through Amazon

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El silencio del juego

Political and sports thriller

A club on the brink of collapse. A financial report that promises independence. A city where football is the means to negotiate far more than results.

Published through Amazon

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Short biography

Andrés Palladino is an Argentine writer and essayist. His novel El instante inútil won the VII Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Mystery and Suspense Novel Prize in 2026. His work spans thrillers, short fiction and essays exploring memory, identity and the workings of power.

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Selected work

Official prize announcement