Esteban Navarro Soriano (born 18 March 1965, in Moratalla) is a Spanish novelist.[1]
In 2011 Soriano earned numerous sales successes with the national police trilogy Moisés Guzmán, protagonist to date of three novels: El Buen Padre,[2][3] Los fresones rojos[4][5] and Los ojos del escritor.[6] Ediciones B has acquired the rights to publish the novel La casa de enfrente,[7] work in the digital edition went on to achieve top sales for several months and has been published on paper in Spain and South America for Ediciones B. In September 2013 he became the best-selling novel on Amazon Mexico, reaching number one[8] authors ahead of the likes of Dan Brown.
In January 2013, he was a finalist in the 69th edition of the Premio Nadal[9][10][11] with the novel La noche de los peones.[12]
He has won awards for his 2008 novella I Katharis[13] and his 2011 novel The Stone Raft[14] He has also been nominated for other awards.[15][16][17]
Navarro is a promoter and organizer of various literary contests, and a jury member of several literary contests based in Huesca.[14] There are articles written by him in newspapers such as Diario del AltoAragón[18][19][20][21] and El País.[22]
Esteban Navarro is considered the creator of the term Generation Kindle,[44] referring to writers who emerged on the Kindle digital platform.[45][46] This "Generación Kindle"[47][48] brings together authors who, although they are of different ages and styles, publish their works through Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). The term has been embraced by the media to refer to all the authors who publish and succeed through ebooks.[49]
In 2017, the Directorate-General of the Police opened an Information File of him in his capacity as an official of the National Police after having published his novel A history of police, although the author unlinked the file with the publication of this work.[50]
This news had a lot of media coverage even in international newspapers, such as The Guardian.[51] In the indictment they pointed out that "some officials of the police station in Huesca" were worried that their activity in social networks would damage the image of the body to which it belongs.[52]