Malú Urriola

María de la Luz Urriola González (9 June 1967 – 21 July 2023), most often known as Malú Urriola, was a Chilean poet, screenwriter and academic. She wrote seven books of poetry and won the 2006 Pablo Neruda Award. She was a professor at the Catholic University of Chile. As a screenwriter, Urriola wrote for the television programs and .

Early life and academia Malú Urriola was born in Santiago on 9 June 1967. She began writing at the age of 14 and received a scholarship from the poetry workshop of the in 1986.

Urriola wrote scripts for feature films, series and soap operas. She was a writer for the television programs Los Venegas and La vida es una lotería. In 2004, she received the Best Television Contribution Award from the Servicio Nacional de la Mujer for her 2003 script for "Sofía (Una historia de maltrato a la Mujer)", from the Televisión Nacional de Chile series Cuentos de Mujeres.

Awards Urriola won the Pablo Neruda Award in 2006. Her writing also earned her the Santiago Municipal Literature Award and an award from the for her collection Nada in 2004.

Works Piedras rodantes (1988) Dame tu sucio amor (1994) Nada (2003) Bracea (2007) Cadáver exquisito (2017) El cuaderno de las cosas inútiles (2022) La luz que me ciega with photographer Paz Errázuriz (2010) La noche en el espejo (2016)