Spain

Félix J. Palma 

Félix J. Palma (Spain, 1968) has been recognized by the critics as one of today’s most brilliant and original writers and has received many literary awards. His first volume of stories, El…...

Care Santos 

Care Santos was born in 1970 in Mataro, a city just north of Barcelona, Spain. She began writing at eight years old, and never wanted to be anything but a writer. At fourteen she won her first writing…...

Luis Nuño 

Luis Nuño was born in 1975 in Oviedo, Spain. In 2001 his story “El último mono” won a writing contest in Asturias called Cuentos Cortos, Cortos. In November 2009 he was named…...

Miguel de Unamuno 

Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) was a Spanish novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist. A key figure of the Generation of 1898, he is perhaps best known for his book-length philosophical essays, such…...

Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas 

Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas (Barcelona, Spain, 1939) was professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of Westminster in London and currently teaches in the Masters of…...

Blanca Riestra 

Blanca Riestra (La Coruña, 1970) studied Hispanic Philology in Santiago de Compostela and received her doctorate from the University of Burgundy (France).  Her novels include: Anatol y dos…...

Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga 

Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga (1971) grew up in Granada, but was born in Madrid, where he currently lives.  He is the author of the novels Santo Diablo (Kailas, 2004), El segundo círculo…...

Yehudah HaLevi 

An unrivaled master of Hebrew language and prosody, Yehudah HaLevi (c. 1075–1141) is perhaps the most famous of all the medieval Hebrew poets. Born on the border between Muslim and Christian Spain,…...

Moshe Ibn Ezra 

Moshe Ibn Ezra (c. 1055–1135) is considered the finest craftsman of the Andalusian period and in many ways its representative poet, as he fulfilled the classical ideal of biblical purity of diction…...

Manuel de Lope 

Manuel de Lope was born in Burgos in 1949. When he was fifteen he moved to Madrid, where he lives now, after having lived in Geneva, London, and the South of France for twenty-five years. In 1978 he published…...

Carles Torner 

Carles Torner (Barcelona, 1963) has published several books of poetry in Catalan, the most recent one being La núvia d'Europa (Europe's bride, 2009). In 1998 he was awarded the National…...

Eduardo Lago 

A resident of New York City for the last twenty-two years, Eduardo Lago has translated works by Henry James, Hamlin Garland, John Barth, Sylvia Plath, William Dean Howells, Christopher Isherwood, and Junot…...

Bernardo Atxaga 

Bernardo Atxaga (Jose Irazu Garmendia) was born in Asteau, Guipúzcoa, Basque Autonomous Community in Spain, in 1951. He writes novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and children's books, and…...

Enrique Vila-Matas 

Enrique Vila-Matas was born in 1948 in Barcelona. Among his many works are Bartleby y compañía (Bartleby & Co.), which was selected as the best book of the year by French booksellers…...

Espido Freire 

Espido Freire was born in Bilbao in 1974. She is the author of several novels, including Irlanda (1998), Donde siempre es octubre (1999), Melocotones helados (winner of the 1999 Premio Planeta), Nos espera…...

David Trueba 

David Trueba is the director of Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamina, 2003), Obra maestra (Masterpiece, 2000), and La Buena vida (The Good Life, 1996.

Javier Cercas 

Javier Cercas was born in 1962. He is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist, whose books include El móvil (The Motive, 1987), and Relatos reales (True Tales, 2000). In the 1980s he taught…...

Antonio Muñoz Molina 

Antonio Muñoz Molina was born in Spain in 1956. He is the author of thirteen novels, among them Sepharad, the English translation of which won the 2004 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize.…...

Francesc Serès 

Francesc Serès studied arts, anthropology, and literature. His first book was Els ventres de la terra. Since then he has published L'arbre sense tronc and Una llengua de plom. These three books…...

Nicolás Casariego 

Nicolás Casariego (Madrid, 1970) is author of the novel Dime cinco cosas que quieres que te haga (Espasa Calpe, 1998), the book of stories La noche de las doscientas estrellas (Espasa Calpe, 1999),…...

Julio Llamazares 

Julio Llamazares was born in the now-vanished town of Vegémian, León, in 1955 (the town is now under a reservoir). He graduated in law, but abandoned his practice to work in Madrid as a journalist…...

Andrés Barba 

Andrés Barba (Madrid 1975), has a degree in Spanish literature. He has represented Spain in several international conferences for young dramatists and has lectured in Madrid and at Bowdoin College…...

Antonio Gamoneda 

Antonio Gamoneda (b. 1931) was recently awarded the Cervantes Prize, as well as the Premio Reina Sophia. In 1975, Gamoneda emerged from a long period of censorship, silence and depression, with the publication…...

Juan Goytisolo 

Spanish novelist Juan Goytisolo was born in Barcelona in 1931. His mother was killed in a Francoist air raid on Barcelona. Deep opposition to Franco led him into exile in Paris in 1956, and he has never…...

Pilar Simó 

Pilar Simó (Reus, 1958) has a degree in Hispanic philology. She lives in Boarell and teaches language and literature in Reus. Her story Tempus fugit was published in Premi relatos con clase 2000.…...

Sergi Pàmies 

Sergi Pàmies (Paris, 1960) alternates his literary production with media work, including journalism and radio and television scripts. His novels include L'instint (Instinct, 1992), which received…...

Mercè Rodoreda 

Mercè Rodoreda is the author of many great novels of modern Catalan literature. She began as a contributor to La Veu de Catalunya and La Publicitat and published four novels, of which, years later,…...

Quim Monzó 

Quim Monzó has always alternated between writing narrative fiction and articles. He is a frequent contributor to the newspaper La Vanguardia. He published his first collection of short stories,…...

Teresa Solana 

Teresa Solana has a degree in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona where she also studied Classics. A translator from French and English, she directed the Spanish National Translators’ Centre…...

Empar Moliner 

Empar Moliner has been a contributor to many media outlets such as Catalunya Ràdio, the newspaper El País, and television programs. Her writing for the press, done with the same corrosive…...

Francesc Parcerisas 

Born in 1944, Francesc Parcerisas, the author of fourteen volumes of poetry, including Still Life with Children, Triumph of the Present, and The Golden Age, is considered the premier Catalan poet of his…...

Ernest Farrés 

Ernest Farrés (Igualada, 1967) is a journalist in Barcelona and the author of three volumes of poems in Catalan: Clavar-ne una al mall i l'altra a l'enclusa (1996), Mosquits (1998), and…...

Fray Gregorio García 

Fray Gregorio was a member of the Dominican order. He was born in 1554, and died in 1627.

Gloria Fuertes 

Gloria Fuertes was born in 1918 in Madrid, Spain, where she lived most of her life. She worked at various office jobs and as a librarian to support her writing. Fuertes was part of the first generation…...

Luis García Montero 

Luis García Montero is one of the most popular poets writing in Spain today. He has received numerous awards for his work, including Spain's National Poetry Prize and the National Poetry Critics…...

Harkaitz Cano 

Harkaitz Cano was born in San Sebastian in 1975. In addition to the poetry collections Kea behelainopean bezala (Like Smoke in a Low-lying Fog; 1994) and Norbait dabil sute-eskaileran (Somebody's Out…...

Sonia Bravo 

Sonia Bravo Utrera holds a Ph.D. in philology and is a university professor, translator, and writer, currently teaching at the University de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. She writes short stories,…...

Nuria Amat 

Núria Amat was born in Barcelona in 1951. She has since lived in Colombia, Mexico, Berlin, Paris, and the United States. Amat teaches courses on Archival Sciences and Technology and is a professor…...

Rafael Alberti 

Rafael Alberti (1902–1999) was a Spanish poet and visual artist and a member of the "Generation of '27," an influential group of avant-garde poets. He wrote several books of poetry during his…...

Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi 

Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi, known as "al-Shaykh al-Akbar," or greatest shaykh, was born in 1165 in Murcia, Spain. His father held an important post in the government, first of Ibn Mardanish and later of…...

Almudena Grandes 

Almudena Grandes's novel Los Aires Difíciles debuted at the number one spot on Spanish bestseller lists when it was published in February 2002, and remained on the lists until June that year.…...

Juan Marsé 

Juan Marsé was born in Barcelona in 1933. Following the publication of his first novel in 1960 he has gone on to become one of the most respected living authors in Spain. He has been honored with…...

Ray Loriga 

The author, screenwriter, and director Ray Loriga (Jorge Loriga Torrenovais) was born in Madrid in 1967. He is the author of the books Lo peor de todo [The Worst Thing of All, 1992], Héroes (1993),…...

Juan José Millás 

Juan José Millás is a contemporary Spanish novelist and author of short stories. His works have been translated into a dozen languages and he has won a number of Spain's most important…...

Jorge Garcia 

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