Antonio Ferres was born in Madrid in 1925, where he lived until 1964. His literary baptism occurred with the obtaining of the Sesame Prize in 1954. In 1964 he emigrated first to France, and has resided in Mexico, the United States and Senegal, practicing as a professor of literature Spanish until his return to Spain, in 1976. With the publication, in 1959, of La Piqueta, he obtained immediate success and since then he was considered one of the main authors of Spanish social realism. He won the City of Barcelona Award for his novel Empty-handed and the Villa de Madrid Poetry Prize for The immense plain not created.