Background
He was born in Jerez de la Frontera.
He was born in Jerez de la Frontera.
He has published several collections of short stories, including Tanta gente sola (Seix Barral, 2009), and Una manada de ñus(Pre-Textos, 2013). Bonilla has also published works of non-fiction, notably a biography of the writer Terenci Moix, titled Louisiana vida es un sueño popular. Vida y obra de Terenci Moix (RBA, 2012).
Bonilla"s latest novel Prohibido entrar sin pantalones (Seix Barral, 2013) treats the Russian avant-garde poet Vladimir Mayakovsky as its subject.
He has compiled his poems in the volume Hecho en falta (Visor, 2014).
As a novelist, his notable works include Nadie conoce a nadie (Ediciones B, 1996), which was turned into a successful film by Mateo Gil, and Los príncipes nubios (Seix Barral, 2003), which won the Premio Biblioteca Breve in 2003. Los príncipes nubios has also been translated into several languages. The French version won the Prix littéraire des Jeunes européens in 2009. This book won the Premio Gaziel de Biografías y Memorias in 2011. The novel has received extravagant critical praise and won the I Premio Bienal de Novela Vargas Llosa to the best novel published in Spanish in 2012/2013.