Antonio Ferres Bugeda, Spanish writer born in Madrid in 1924. where he lived until in 1964 he emigrated to France, later moving to Mexico and the United States. He practiced various trades, obtaining the title of industrial expert, which led him to work in the laboratories of the Ministry of Public Works, organization in which he was a companion of Ángel González and Juan García Hortelano. In 1956 he won the Sesame Prize for his short film Barrio de Cine. He has collaborated in Spanish, American and European magazines, and has written short stories and short stories, such as those published in 22 Spanish narrators today, an anthology prepared by Felix Grande in 1971. He published his first novel, La piqueta, on the shantytown , and like other writers denominated by the critic like socio-realists, his first works appeared in the publishing house Destino and later in the publishing house Seix Barral. In 1961 his novel Al regres del Boiras was banned when the editor Carlos Barral tried to publish it, although it appeared in 1975 in Venezuela (until 2002 has not been reedited in Spain). It was also forbidden Los loscidos, published in Italy by the Feltrinelli publishing house under the title I vinti in 1962, and was reedited in Spain in 2005. In 1964 obtained the prize City of Barcelona by With empty hands. He has been professor of literary theory between 1965 and 1976 in universities of the United States and Mexico. Since 1976 he has lived in Madrid. From 1997 began to publish poetry (The immense plain, The immense plain not created and The desolate plain) without abandoning the narrative. The first part of his memoirs appeared in 2002 under the title Memoirs of a Lost Man. He gathered his stories in the book El caballo y el hombre ... (2008). As a novelist, he belongs to the generation of 50.