Cristina Sánchez-Andrade is a writer, literary critic and translator. She has a degree in Information Sciences and Law, she is a native of Santiago de Compostela. She currently lives in Madrid, where she combines her work as a novelist with university teaching and collaborations in different media, including La Voz de Galicia and El País. In Anagrama she has published Your king no longer steps on the earth (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award 2004); Las Inviernas: «The most beautiful book I have ever read» (Javier Puebla, Cambio 16); «Under the splendid ancestry of Valle-Inclán, Cunqueiro or the first Luis Mateo Díez... Disquieting amenity, rigorous and legitimate writing, achieved ambition» (Jesús Ferrer, La Razón); Someone under the eyelids: «Fascinating... The Sánchez-Andrade's magnificent inventive skills provide a carnival fable as crazy and fun as it is deceptive, because it tells a tragedy» (Santos Sanz Villanueva, El Mundo); «The sensation is that of someone who has found the exact structure for what she wanted to narrate... Of a harsh and moving lyricism» (J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El País); «A splendid novel, with rhythm, subplots, enigmas and priceless bizarre characters» (Íñigo Urrutia, El Diario Vasco), and the book of stories The boy who ate wool, awarded the XVII Setenil Prize for the best book of stories: « In the book, magnificent as a whole, there are excellent stories (Manuel Hidalgo, El Mundo); «It displays originality, bad temper, surrealist distillates and a caustic look at the family, couple relationships and the memory of our elders» (Íñigo Urrutia, El Diario Vasco); «A gem, with poetry and black humor» (Ana Abelenda, La Voz de Galicia). Her work has been translated into English, Portuguese, Italian, Polish and Russian.