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Guillermo Arriaga

ギジェルモ・アリアガ　/　ぎじぇるも・ありあが

Writer from Mexico

March 13, 1958 (age 68)　・　Mexico City, Mexico

writer
screenwriter
film director

My Take

Arriaga is one of those writers I instinctively trust. What grabs me is his self-portrait as "a hunter who works as a writer" rather than a screenwriter chasing a director's approval. His fractured, non-linear storytelling in Babel and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada rewires how you feel fate and consequence, and it earned him a Cannes screenplay prize for a reason. I also admire that he refused to be just a hired pen, pushing screenwriters toward authorship. Add the Alfaguara Prize for his novels, and you see a Mexican storyteller equally lethal on the page and the screen. Genuinely formidable.

Overview

Guillermo Arriaga Jordán (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡiˈʎeɾmo aˈrjaɣa]; born 13 March 1958) is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter, director and producer. Self-defined as "a hunter who works as a writer," he is best known for his Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay nominations for Babel and his screenplay for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which received the 200…

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1. Profile

Name (English): Guillermo Arriaga
Name (Japanese): ギジェルモ・アリアガ
Reading: ぎじぇるも・ありあが
Born: March 13, 1958 (age 68)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Pisces / Dog
Origin: Mexico City, Mexico
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: writer / screenwriter / film director / university teacher / television actor

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Ibero-American University

Awards & achievements

2005 Best Screenplay Award
2020 Alfaguara Prize
2017 Premio Mazatlán de Literatura

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AE%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%82%AC

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