José Adiak Montoya

José Adiak Montoya was born in Managua, Nicaragua in 1987. He is the author of Eclipse: prosa & poesía (2007), as well as the novels El sótano del ángel (2010, which has been assigned reading at his country’s major universities), Un rojo aullido en el bosque (2016), Lennon bajo el sol (Tusquets, 2017), Aunque nada perdure (Seix Barral, 2020), El país de las calles sin nombre (Seix Barral, 2021), and Los actores perversos (Seix Barral, 2023). In 2012, he was awarded an Ibero-American Creative Residency by Mexico’s National Endowment for Culture and the Arts. In 2015, he was declared winner of the Third Carátula Central American Short Story Prize and was granted a literary residency at the MEET in France. Granta included him in 2021 on its list of the twenty-five best young writers in the Spanish language.