The author of ‘La sociedad de la nieve’, Pablo Vierci, will participate in a meeting at the Mirador del Carmen on April 29th.

The journalist and writer will discuss the origin of the book on which Juan Antonio Bayona’s acclaimed film about the plane crash in the Andes is based.

The Estepona City Council informs that the Uruguayan journalist and writer Pablo Vierci, author of the book ‘La sociedad de la nieve’ on which the successful film by Juan Antonio Bayona is based, will participate in a meeting with readers on Monday, April 29 at the Mirador del Carmen Cultural Center. The event, which will take place at 8 p.m. with free admission until full capacity is reached, will be moderated by journalist Francisco Reyero.

Pablo Vierci (Montevideo, 1950) is the author of a dozen books, including ‘La sociedad de la nieve’, published in 2008, translated into Portuguese, and republished in 2022 (Alrevés Editorial), translated into English, Italian and Catalan. It is currently number 1 in sales in Spain.

Twice winner of Uruguay’s second National Literature Award (1987 and 2004) and the Golden Book Award from the Uruguayan Chamber of Books (2009), he has also written numerous feature film scripts that have been recognized with the Fona Award (1999), Best Screenplay Award at the 29th Havana Film Festival (2007), and Best Screenplay Award at the 14th Lleida Film Festival (2008). In 2003 he was awarded the Citi Journalistic Excellence Award, studied at Columbia University in New York.

In his meeting with readers in Estepona, Vierci will talk about the origin of both the book ‘La sociedad de la nueve’ and the renowned film by Juan Antonio Bayona -nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars- with the same title. The writer has been responsible for the research on the Los Andes air tragedy that interested the Spanish film director to bring it to the big screen and is also an associate producer of the feature film.

Vierci was a student at Stella Maris-Christian Brothers School and had even played rugby in the school’s team, so he was friends with many of the young people who were on the plane that crashed. He began writing the book in 1973. He accompanied a group of survivors with their children to the mountains. In ‘La sociedad de la nieve’ he collects the first-person testimony of these young people about what the 72 days in the mountains were like, how they overcame this extreme situation, how they understood death, what the accident meant and how it influenced their later life.