Marie Hermanson was born in Göteborg, Sweden in 1956. She studied Journalism, Literature and Sociology at the University of Gothenburg. In 1986, he published his first book, a collection of short stories inspired by folktales and myths. Since then he has published nine novels, where he explores closure and everyday claustrophobia with an impressive logic, but always leaves the door open to the absurd and fantastic. Unique phenomenon of the literature of Nordic suspense; Its bestsellers have been translated into 12 languages and have sold more than one million copies. The Sanctuary of the Devil is his first book translated into Castilian