Antonio Mercero: Last News

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Atresplayer Premium, the burgeoning OTT service behind HBO Max hit “Veneno,” has renewed “The Gypsy Bride” (“La novia gitana”), whose Season 1, from “Penny Dreadful” director Paco Cabezas, world premieres at the San Sebastian Film Festival.  Atresmedia Television will produce with Banijay Iberia’s Diagonal TV, producer of Netflix hit “Heirs to the Land.”Produced by VIS with the participation of Atresmedia Television and the collaboration of the Diagonal TV, the first season of “The Gypsy Bride” will bow on Atresplayer Premium on Sept. 25.  Directed in its totality by Cabezas, whose credits also include “American Gods,” Season 1 is set in a gypsy community on Madrid’s humble outskirts as homicide inspector Elena Blanco, (Nerea Barros, “Marshland”) is called in to investigate the torture and assassination of a young woman just before her wedding.

Spain, has written a series of thrillers centred around detective Elena Blanco.However, the three actual authors – Agustin Martínez, Jorge Diaz, and Antonio Mercero – revealed they had been using a pseudonym as they picked up the 2021 Planeta Award and a cheque worth €1 million (£843,488).Mr Mercero told Spanish newspaper El Pais: "We didn’t hide behind a woman, we hid behind a name.“I don’t know if a female pseudonym would sell more than a male one, I don’t have the faintest idea, but I doubt it.”Mola was described as a mum of three in her 40s who worked as a professor while writing up thrillers.Spanish paper El Mundo reported in an interview with the authors: “It hasn’t escaped anyone’s notice that the idea of a university professor and

K.J. Yossman The Spanish literary world was rocked on Friday night by the revelation that one of the country’s most celebrated female novelists, Carmen Mola, was in fact a work of fiction.