Jesús Ferrero (Zamora, 1952) spent his childhood in the Basque Country and at 18 moved to Paris, where he attended college in Vincennes and the School of Higher Studies. He has published, among others, the following novels: belver Yin (City of Barcelona Award 1982), Opium (Siruela, April 2004), Lady Pepa, The Doppler effect (International Novel Prize 1990), Alis Wild, The Secret the gods (Siruela, 2003), The Last feast (Azorin Award 1997), Ulaluna (chosen by UNESCO as a juvenile novel in Spanish literary quality over 1998), or Amador's narration a lucky man, the Devil in the Juanelo eyes or the new man. He is also the author of two books and two works of teatro.En Siruela has also published the novel The Thirteen Roses (2003), juvenile narration Zirze Long Legs (2002) and the poetry collection Red Nights (2004).