Alma Delia MURILLO


Alma Delia Murillo (Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, 1979) is a Mexican writer, author of the bestselling novel La cabeza de mi padre (Alfaguara, 2022). She is also a regular collaborator in national newspapers such as Reforma, or magazines as The Washington Post or Milenio, among others.

Murillo is also a scriptwriter, who has participated as a creator and scriptwriter in several several audioseries for Amazon Audible and Amazon Music: 10 Mujeres (Wondery and Dudas Media) Angélica Aragón, Yalitza Aparicio, Bárbara Mori and Mabel Cadena starring, Conversaciones prohibidas del confinamiento, starring Maya Zapata, El amor es un bono navideño, Ciudad de abajo (starring Alfonso Herrera), and Diario la libro.

She debuted with the short stories Damas de Caza (Plaza y Valdés, 2011) and Cuentos de maldad (y uno que otro maldito) (Alfaguara, 2020), and then kept on writing the novels El niño que fuimos (Alfaguara, 2018) and Las noches habitadas (DeBolsillo, 2021).







La cabeza de mi padre

My Father's Head | Alfaguara, 2023

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