Lucía Puenzo

Lucía Puenzo (born November 28, 1976, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine novelist, screenwriter and film director, and the daughter of director Luis Puenzo. She debuted as a novelist in 2004 with El niño pez and was named one of Granta's best young Spanish-language writers in 2010.

Her 2011 novel Wakolda (published in this catalog under its Arabic edition title, "الطبيب الألماني") reimagines the Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele's years in hiding in 1960s Patagonia through the eyes of a young girl in the family sheltering him.

Puenzo also wrote and directed the 2013 film adaptation, The German Doctor (Wakolda), and made her directorial debut with XXY (2007), winner of the Cannes Critics' Week Grand Prize and a Goya Award.