Jorge Zepeda Patterson

Jorge Zepeda Patterson is a Mexican journalist, novelist, and political analyst born in 1952 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa. He is one of Mexico's most prominent journalists, founder of the online newspaper Sin Embargo and director of the newspaper El Universal. His journalism has focused on Mexican politics and organized crime, subjects that deeply inform his fiction. Zepeda Patterson entered fiction with Milena o el fémur más bello del mundo (Milena, or the Most Beautiful Femur in the World), which won the Premio Planeta in 2014. The novel is a political thriller set in the world of Mexican and European organized crime, drawing on the author's deep knowledge of criminal networks and political corruption. His subsequent novels in the Milena series and other political thrillers have developed a loyal readership for their combination of journalistic accuracy, political insight, and narrative drive. His work bridges the gap between serious political journalism and genre fiction in the tradition of John le Carré and Donna Leon. Zepeda Patterson represents a significant trend in contemporary Spanish-language fiction: the journalist-novelist who uses genre conventions to illuminate political realities that traditional journalism struggles to capture.