Santiago Roncagliolo has published a trilogy of true stories: El pastor y los lobos, about Pope Leo XIV; La cuarta espada, about the leader of the Shining Path terrorist group; and El amante uruguayo, about the writer from the River Plate region who loved Federico García Lorca. He has also written a trilogy of novels about the Catholic Church and power. His books have been adapted for film and theatre, and translated into more than twenty languages.