Spain
Guest of the book fair
Author of non-fiction novels. He has written books with strong social and environmental emphasis inspired by real events, e.g. The Trails of Freedom (1992), The Mountains of Buddha (1998) or Five past Midnight in Bhopal (2001), telling the story of one of the greatest industrial disasters in the chemical industry. His novel The Indian Princess (2005), the story of a Spanish dancer who married the maharaja of Kapurthala, was a great success with critics and in sales. In 2018 he published The Red Sari, a saga about Sonia Gandhi and the Nehru family. In 2011 he was awarded the Premio Planeta prize for The Empire is You, a story about the Brazilian emperor Pedro I. The year 2015 saw the publication of Skin Deep, an epic tale of the Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition and its forgotten participants. The novel became very topical during the pandemic. In 2018 Moro received the Primavera Novel Prize for My Sin. Last year he published the novel Trial by Fire, the story of Rafael Guastavino, also known as “the architect of New York”.
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