Santiago Roncagliolo and David Montgomery of the Washington Post discuss "Red April" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Speaker Biography: Santiago Roncagliolo is a Peruvian writer, scriptwriter, translator and journalist. He began his writing career with children's books and plays, and expanded to write in a variety of forms from nonfiction articles to soap opera scripts. Roncagliolo's works have been translated into more than 10 languages, and his novel "Pudor" was made into a film. He is also a contributor to El País and various other Latin American newspapers. Roncagliolo is the author of more than 10 Spanish books including "La cuarta espada," which goes inside the mind of terrorist Abimael Guzmán, and "Memorias de una dama," which traces the origins of the Mafia in Cuba. He became the youngest winner of the Alfaguara Prize in 2006 for his political thriller "Abril rojo," which was recently published in English as "Red April" and was a finalist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. The main character of "Red April" returns in Roncagliolo's latest Spanish thriller, "La pena máxima."

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