Marcelo Simonetti is a journalist, writer, and screenwriter. He writes for the sports section of La Tercera newspaper in Chile. He is the author of El abanico de madame Czechowska (Madame Czechowska's Fan) and La traicion de Borges (The Treachery of Borges), which received the Casa de America Prize in 2005 (Spain). Tito is Simonetti's first book for children and young adults.