Pablo Vierci (Montevideo, Uruguay, July 7, 1950) is a writer, journalist, and screenwriter. His literary work focuses on memory, identity, and human experiences, while his audiovisual production includes scripts for film and television. He has twice been awarded the Second National Literature Prize of Uruguay (1987 and 2004) and has twice received the Golden Book Award from the Uruguayan Book Chamber (2009 and 2024). In 2003, he received the Citi Journalistic Excellence Award at Columbia University in New York.

His body of work includes the following titles: Los tramoyistas (1979), Pequeña historia de una mujer (1984), Detrás de los árboles (1987), 99% asesinado (2004), La sociedad de la nieve (The Society of the Snow, 2008), De Marx a Obama (2010), Artigas – La Redota (2011), El desertor (2012), Ellas 5 (2014), Tenía que sobrevivir (I Had to Survive, 2016, co-authored with Roberto Canessa), El fin de la inocencia (2018), and La redención de Pascasio Báez (2021). His most recent novel is The Boy Who Inherited Silence (2025).

The film adaptation of his book The Society of the Snow, directed by J. A. Bayona and for which the author also served as associate producer, achieved wide international acclaim, winning 12 Goya Awards, 6 Platino Awards, and a total of 47 prizes with more than 70 nominations, in addition to two Academy Award nominations in 2024.