EDEBÉ Children's Literature Award 2007: Los perfectos, by Rodrigo Muñoz Avia

A career philosopher, his priority activity is literary, which he alternates with being a film scriptwriter and with the dissemination and interpretation of the work of his parents, the painters Lucio Muñoz and Amalia Avia.

He has published the young adult novels Lo que no sabes (Alfaguara Publishing House, 1996 Jaén award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature) and El portero de hockey (Everest Publishing House, Finalist for the 1997st “Leer es vivir” award, 2005), and the children’s novel Julia y Gus visitan el top manta (Edebé Publishing House, 2005). Outside the children’s and young adult fields, he has published the novel Psiquiatras, psicológicos y otros enfermos (Alfaguara Publishing House, XNUMX), which to date has thirteen paperback editions and three pocket editions, and has been translated into Portuguese and Polish.

In addition, he has compiled and introduced two books especially dear to him, one about his best friend, a mountaineer who died in the Himalayas in 2001 (Alfonso Vizán, a pirate in the mountain, Ed. Desnivel, 2004) and another about the writings left by his father (Lucio Muñoz, el rabbit en la casara, Ed. Síntesis, 2006).

As a film scriptwriter, he frequently collaborates with his brother Nicolás Muñoz. The scripts for the feature film Rewind (1998), the documentary El viaje de Susu (2003) and the unproduced feature film Operación Salida (2002, finalist for the 2003 Pilar Miró award convened by the Academy of Television Sciences and Arts) stand out.

He has also written studies of contemporary art, mainly on the work of Lucio Muñoz, in various publications of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Santander-Central Hispano Foundation, the Juan March Foundation, the Aena-Arte Foundation and some newspaper media such as the ABC Cultural.