Miguel-Anxo MURADO (1965). Writer, screen play writer for TV and cinema, documentary film director, journalist and translator.

As a writer, he is the author of more than twenty titles. Still a 17 y.o. he achieved the “Café Gijón” novel award for a book written in Spanish, Metamorfosis benezianas. Since then, he has written, mostly in his Galician language, collections of short stories and poetry. One of his books, A Bestiary of discontent, has been translated into English and printed by the Edwin Mellen Press. He is also the author of essay books, travel books, collections of articles and translations. In 1996 he was awarded with the Sanclemente Prize for novels, ex-aequo with the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi. He has also written for the stage, with two comedies produced: A Grande Noite de Fiz (Fiz greatest Night) and Historias peregrinas (Pilgrim stories)

As a journalist, he covered the wars in Croatia and Bosnia and the Second Intifada in Palestine. Mideast correspondent for the Spanish newspaper El Mundo and for the Europa Press agency. He also worked for two years as press officer for the United Nations in the Occupied Territories.

In parallel, he has developed an intense for the screen, both cinema and TV, writing or directing documentary and fiction series, including the scrip for two full length films: The law of the Border (Adolfo Aristarain, 1995) and Finisterre (Xavier Villaverde, 1998). He has achieved three times the Carlos Velo Award for screenplay writers.He has also taught at cinema school in Coruña (Galicia).

Murado also held de position of Head of the Communication Department in the Circulo de Bellas Artes of Madrid and director of Radio Círculo, a cultural radio station based in Madrid. Currently, he contributes an opinion column to the newspaper La Voz de Galicia as well as regular political commentary on international affairs. He has been recently awarded with the “Francisco Fernandez del Riego” award for this articles.