Fernando Travesí / Playwright (Spain)

Writer and playwright, author of plays premiered in Spain and the United States; and of narratives published in Spain and Colombia. In Spain he won the Calderón de la Barca National Theatre Award with the play ‘Ilusiones rotas’. And, in Colombia, he won the Short Novel Award convened by the publishing house Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) for his manuscript ‘La vida imperfecta’.

Some of his plays include ‘Palabras de amor’, ‘Sangre en la alfombra’, ‘¡Tú, come bollos!’, ‘Acuérdate de mí’, ‘El diván’, which have toured various stages in Spain, including the Spanish Contemporary Authors’ Theatre Showcase, and New York.

Fernando Travesí holds a degree in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid and is a specialist in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution from the Pontifical Javeriana University of Bogotá (Colombia), where he received the Order of University Merit for the quality of his academic work. His artistic training was completed at the Royal Conservatory of Music where he completed his classical piano studies, as well as at the Cristina Rota Theatre School (Madrid) where he studied dramatic art and playwriting.

Over more than two decades of working to defend and protect human rights in countries in conflict, Fernando has lived in Albania, the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, Nepal, Colombia and has carried out missions around the world. He currently lives in New York and directs the International Center for Transitional Justice.