José Ángel Mañas

José Ángel Mañas (born 1971 in Madrid ) is a Spanish writer.

In 1994 he published the novel Historias del Kronen, German as published The Crown Bar and filmed as a meeting place Kronenbar. The social study of Madrid in Spain as a teenager was hit movie. 1995 saw the novel Mensaka, which was made ​​into a film under the same name.

In 1996 he published his third novel, Soy un escritor frustrado, a detective novel, which became known in Germany under the title The story of my uncanny success. In this book Mañas tells the story of a frustrated writer who appropriates the sensational novel manuscript of a student to finally have success. He kidnapped the student, and then lives the double life of a celebrated author and a psychopath who hides the student from the public. The novel was made ​​into a film by the name of Imposture, and shown in Cannes 2005.

More novels are Ciudad Rayada 1998, Sonko95 1999, Mundo Burbuja 2001, Karen Caso in 2005, and El secreto del oráculo November 2007.

Mañas is considered one of the most promising young authors of Spanish literature that takes the reality with an ironic view of the grain.