David Trueba

David Trueba was born in Madrid in 1969 and studied journalism at the University Complutense in Madrid. He is a journalist – his weekly articles for El Periodico de Catalunya are collected in the anthology entitled Tragarse la Lengua and Articulos de occasion, published by Ediciones B. He was a TV columnist in El Pais.
Trueba also works in Television; he was the co-director of El Peor Programa de la Semana [1993-94] and he filmed Que fue de Jorge Sanz (2010), a six-episode series for Canal+.
Regaring cinema, Trueba has worked on the scripts of films such as Amo tu cama rica (1991), Los peros anos de nuestra vida (1994), Two Much (1994), Perdita Durango (1997), La nina de tus ojos (1998), and on the documentary Balseros (2003), which was nominated for the Oscar for the Best Documentary of 2004. Films on which he worked as Director and screenwriter include La Buena Vida (1996), Obra Maestra (2000) Soldados de Salamina (2003), Bienvenido a casa (2006), La Silla de Fernando (2006), Madrid 1987 (2011) and Living is easy with eyes closed (2013).
As an author, Trueba has written three novels, all published by Anagrama: Abierto toda la noche (1995), Cuatro Amigos (1999) and Saber Perder (2008), which was awarded the National Critics Prize in 2008 and was shortlisted for the Medicis Prize in its French version. His novels have been translated into ten languages.

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