Guillermo Arriaga

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.

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

Occupation

writer / screenwriter / film director / university teacher / television actor

University

Ibero-American University

Awards & achievements

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

Motto

Private

• 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

Tags

• writer
• screenwriter
• film director

Last updated

2026-06-02

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