Álvaro del Amo (born 1942) is a Spanish dramatist, novelist, screenwriter, and music critic.

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish. (September 2012) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at [[:es:Álvaro del Amo]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|es|Álvaro del Amo}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

His work as a playwright is partly unpublished, but in his productions (Geografía, 1985 and Motor, 1988) one can appreciate a translation of the language and the cinematographic aesthetic to the stage.^[1]

As a narrator, he begins with Mutis (1980, La Gaya Ciencia). Other works of his are Libreto (1985), Contagio (1991), El Horror (finalist for the Herralde Prize in 1993), Incandescencia (collection of short stories, 1998) and Los melómanos (2000). He was also the scriptwriter of Amantes, by Vicente Aranda, a play that he brought to the stage in 2014 at the Valle-Inclán theatre in Madrid.^[2]

• "Álvaro del Amo". Caos Editorial. Retrieved 2009-05-16.