Eduardo Mendoza was born in 1943 in Barcelona. He spent some years in New York where he worked at the United Nations as an interpreter. He is widely considered to be one of the most important contemporary Spanish novelists and has won many prizes internationally. Nicholas Caistor is the author of Octavio Paz (Reaktion, 2006), editor of two anthologies, and has translated many novels by Latin American and Spanish authors, including Juan Marse, Juan Carlos Onetti, Sergio Ramirez, Jose Saramago, Osvaldo Soriano and Dulce Chacón. Nick Caistor won the Premio Valle Inclan 2007.