David Marín Rubio was born in Barcelona (1974) and since 2008 he lives in the region of La Noguera. He has been teaching language and literature since 2019. Previously, he worked as a journalist at the newspaper El Punt Avui, where he still writes as external contributor.
In 2015 David published his first novel, Mala Lluna (La Magrana-RBA). He also has published Ciutat fantasma (Llibres del delicte, 2017), the erotic collection Amb X de sexe (Pagès Editors, 2019) together with Pau Juvillà.
This 2019 he was awarded the Crims de Tinta Prize with his book Purgatori (La Magrana-RBA), a thriller settled in the Pyrenees that revolves around the return of a descendant from La Vella Rugalla, a woman from la Vall Fosca condemned for witchcraft centuries ago. This is the second book of the Rull series, inaugurated in 2015 with Mala lluna.
In 2020 he published the novel Appletown (Pagès Editors), a finalist at the València Negra 2021 festival, and in 2023 he published the true crime Mor un os a la Vall d’Aran (Angle Editorial), based on the journalistic investigation of a real case.
Among his other books, David has collaborated with the short stories collection Assassins de Ponent (Llibres del delicte, 2016), Barcelona, viatge a la periferia criminal (Alrevés Editorial, 2017), Contes de terror (Apostroph, 2017) and Política criminal (Edicions Xandri, 2019).
In his novels he mixes the urban atmospheres with the rural world, but from a modern and complex point of view, away from the clichés. David explores topics such as the paternity, the impossibility of coming back to the past or the fight between desire and reason.
David teaches writing and narrative courses at the Ateneu Popular de Ponent and in other cultural centers in Lleida.