Fernando Navarro (screenwriter)
{{Short description|Spanish writer}}
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| image = Malaga Film Festival 2025 - Fernando Navarro.jpg
| caption = Navarro in 2025
| birth_place = Granada, Spain
| birth_date = 1980
| occupation = {{Hlist|Screenwriter|music critic}}
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Fernando Navarro (born 1980) is a Spanish screenwriter. He is also a music critic.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elindependientedegranada.es/cultura/llegada-joe-strummer-ciclo-ponencias-sobre-granada-como-inspiracion-viajeros|website=El Independiente de Granada|title=La llegada de Joe Strummer, en un ciclo de ponencias sobre Granada como inspiración para viajeros|date=13 November 2018}}
Biography
Fernando Navarro was born in Granada in 1980.{{Cite web|url=https://www.heraldo.es/noticias/ocio-y-cultura/2022/04/02/fernando-navarro-escribo-de-un-espacio-mitico-no-de-la-espana-real-1564409.html|website=heraldo.es|date=2 April 2022|title=Fernando Navarro: "Escribo de un espacio mítico inventado, no de la España real"|first=Antón|last=Castro}} After considering to try to become a drummer for a music band, he started writing film screenplays.{{Cite web|url=https://www.granadahoy.com/ocio/Fernando-Navarro-guionista-entrevista_0_1535846891.html|website=Granada Hoy|title="La experiencia del cine es incomparable; nada puede competir con eso"|date=8 January 2021|first=Isabel|last=Vargas}} He has since penned or co-penned the screenplays of Toro, Spy Time, Veronica, Muse, Taxi to Gibraltar,{{Cite web|url=https://www.elcomercio.es/culturas/cine/taxi-gibraltar-epica-desgraciados-20190312201631-ntrc.html|website=El Comercio|date=12 March 2019|first=Iker|last=Cortés|title='Taxi a Gibraltar' o la épica de los desgraciados}} Unknown Origins,{{Cite web|url=https://www.ideal.es/culturas/cine/guionista-granadino-fernando-20210118144201-nt.html|website=Ideal|date=18 January 2021|first=José E.|last=Cabrero|title=El guionista granadino Fernando Navarro, nominado a los Goya al Mejor Guión Adaptado}} Below Zero, A Perfect Enemy, and Venus.{{Cite web|url=https://www.audiovisual451.com/finaliza-el-rodaje-de-venus-la-segunda-pelicula-del-sello-cinematografico-the-fear-collection/|website=Audiovisual451|title=Finaliza el rodaje de ‘Venus’, la segunda película del sello cinematográfico The Fear Collection|date=3 February 2022}} He has also formed part of the writing team of television series Matadero and {{ill|¿Qué fue de Jorge Sanz?|es}}.
He has been nominated twice to the Goya Awards;{{Cite web|url=https://www.lavozdealmeria.com/noticia/5/vivir/236796/malaventura-de-fernando-navarro-un-western-tan-lorquiano-como-almeriense|website=La Voz de Almería|date=29 April 2022|title=‘Malaventura’, de Fernando Navarro: un western tan lorquiano como almeriense}} for Veronica (Best Original Screenplay){{Cite web|url=https://www.premiosgoya.com/pelicula/veronica|website=premiosgoya.com|access-date=13 June 2022|title=Verónica|publisher=Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España}} and for Unknown Origins (Best Adapted Screenplay).{{Cite web|url=https://www.premiosgoya.com/pelicula/origenes-secretos|website=premiosgoya.com|access-date=13 June 2022|title=Orígenes secretos|publisher=Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España}}
In 2022, Navarro released his first book, Malaventura, published by Impedimenta.{{Cite web|url=https://www.efe.com/efe/andalucia/granada/el-orgullo-del-western-en-primer-libro-guionista-fernando-navarro/50001126-4786279|website=EFE|date=19 April 2022|title=El orgullo del wéstern, en el primer libro del guionista Fernando Navarro}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.eldiario.es/andalucia/lacajanegra/fernando-navarro-asesinos-libro-ternura-humanidad_1_8942257.html|website=Eldiario.es|title=Fernando Navarro: “Los asesinos de mi libro tienen mucha ternura y humanidad”|date=31 May 2022}}
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Category:21st-century Spanish screenwriters
Category:Spanish music critics
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