Pablo Aranda Ruiz (26 April 1968[1][2] – 1 August 2020)[3] was a Spanish writer.
A tireless traveller, he worked in a number of professions, including teaching at a juvenile correctional facility and teaching Spanish at the University of Oran in Algeria.
His other works include Desprendimiento de rutina (Arguval, 2003) which won the Premio Diario Sur para Novela Corta and Ucrania (Destino, 2006) which won the Premio Málaga.
In 2012, he made his first foray into children’s literature, with his book Fede quiere ser pirata (Anaya, 2012) which won the Premio de Literatura Infantil Ciudad de Málaga.
He followed up with a sequel El colegio más raro del mundo (Anaya, 2014).