Antonio Skármeta

Antonio Skármeta is a Chilean author who wrote the novel that inspired the 1994 Academy Award–winning movie Il Postino: The Postman. His fiction has received dozens of awards and has been translated into nearly thirty languages. In 2011 his novel The Days of the Rainbow (Other Press 2013) won the prestigious Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa. His play El Plebiscito was the basis for the Oscar-nominated film No.