César López Llera (1963) is a Spanish playwright born in Madrid, although one of his books reportedly feels like Andeyes, a small Asturian village where he would like to be buried under an oak tree. Biography
He has a degree in Hispanic Philology from the Complutense University of Madrid, where he received the Blas de Otero Poetry Prize as a student and works as a professor of Spanish Language and Literature.
He has been head of the Linguistics Department of FONO-LENG, associate center of the Victoria University of Manchester and has taught Linguistics courses in Bilbao, Santander, Oviedo, León, Burgos, Valladolid, Madrid and Castellón.
He collaborates in newspapers, magazines and digital portals, with articles of varied themes: literary, theatrical, social, political ..., for some of which he has received awards: Eulogio Florentino Sanz Award for Literary Journalism (2003) and Prize City of Alcala de Periodismo Manuel Azaña (2004).
As a playwright he was revealed in 2004 when he received the fifth Serantes Theater Prize for his first work: '' A Goat in the Bottle Court or Valle Inclán in Lavapiés (Editorial Artezblai). To that award they have followed: International Prize of Theater of Author Domingo Pérez Minik 2006 of the University of La Laguna by the girl of yesterday (Publications of the University of La Laguna), the Rafael Guerrero of Minimum Theater 2006 by: Calls of lost of the 11 - M, short work on the train bombings of the death of Madrid, published by GRUPO TAETRO of Chiclana (Cádiz), which premiered the work in the Teatro Moderno of that town on January 20, 2007. It has also received the Tirso de Molina Award 2006 from the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the text "Last days of a libertarian whore or La Vieja y la Mar" (Madrid, Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, 2008), as well like the Extraodinary Prize of the Hyperbreve Theatrical Monologue of the International Competition of Micrifiction "Garzón Céspedes" 2007 for: The never-counted plant of Miguel de Quijote Saavedra (published in Free Scene of M exico). In 2009 he won the prestigious Lope de Vega Prize for his drama about the war in Iraq: Baghdad, city of fear (Editorial Artezblai) and opened the Festival of Palma del Río with Last days of a libertarian whore, which received very good reception by of the public and the critics.
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