Miguel Dalmau (Barcelona, ​​1957). Son of a Catalan doctor and a painter educated in Cuba. He studied at a religious college in his city and later began a career in medicine, which he interrupted to dedicate himself to writing. After his first novel, La grieta, he has become the most notable literary portraitist of his generation with The Ballad of Oscar Wilde and Los Goytisolo (which was a finalist for the XXVII Anagrama Essay Prize, which confirmed his prestige). In 2008, Dalmau won the 15th Juan March Cencillo Short Novel Prize with Hitler's Clock. He has spent long periods in Paris and Siena. For fifteen years he has lived in Mallorca and collaborates in various media.