Carlos Tromben

Biography Son of the ship captain and naval historian, Carlos Tromben Corbalán, and Gloria Reyes Ojeda, Tromben studied at the French College of Vina del Mar, currently, the French Alliance, which in those years was close to the Quinta Vergara. Then he finished his BA and received as a business administrator at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (PUCV).

After La Casa de Electra (2010) —a spy thriller set during World War II with a woman as the protagonist—, in 2015, Tromben published Huáscar, a historical novel that describes the capture of the legendary Peruvian monitor. This work, also commented by the National History Prize Eduardo Cavieres, as well as the origin of Sebastián Piñera's fortune.

His success as a fiction writer was consolidated in 2017 with his third historical novel, Santa María de Iquique, about the massacre at the school of the same name of entire families —Bolivian, Chilean and Peruvian—, murdered by soldiers of the Chilean Army in December 1907. The work has been on the list of best sellers and was selected as one of the best books of the year by a group of ten critics and cultural journalists. The same year, he also published La Señora de Dolor, a remake of Karma, which, in Tromben's words, 'is not a 2.0 version of that book, but another novel', because 'they are the same characters, but located in a parallel universe, similar, but not identical'.

Works Fiction Poderes fácticos, policial novel, Mercurio Aguilar, 2003 Prácticas rituales, policial novel, Alfaguara, 2005 Karma, novel, Seix Barral, 2006 Perdidos en el espacio I, stories, Calabaza del Diablo, 2008 La Casa de Electra, thriller, Alfaguara, 2010 Perdidos en el espacio II, stories, Calabaza del Diablo, 2011 Huáscar, Historical novel, Ediciones B, 2015 (Estruendomudo, Lima, 2016) Balmaceda, Historical novel, Ediciones B, 2016 La señora de dolor; Ediciones B, 2017 Santa María de Iquique, la muerte de la República, Historical novel, Ediciones B, 2017 El vino de Dios, Thriller, Ediciones B, 2019

No-fiction Crónica secreta de la economía chilena, Essay, Ediciones B, 2016 Pescado Rabioso, Essay, Ediciones B, 2018 Brevario del Neoliberalismo, Essay, Mandrágora, 2019