Alberto Olmos
Marcial Pons business group is devoted to the world of specialized books and journals. The target areas of the Group’s activity are Social Sciences (mainly Law and Economy) and Humanities. Established in 1948, Marcial Pons group currently owns four specialized bookstores, a wholesale distribution company, a specialized journals and periodical publications subscription agency, an online bookstore, and three specialized imprints, two of them in Law and Social Sciences, based in Madrid and Buenos Aires; and a third one, specialized in History, based in Madrid.Alberto Olmos (Segovia, 1975) sets a new standard in Spanish literature. He won the Herralde novel award in 1998 with A bordo del naufragio [Aboard the Shipwreck]. Two years later his second novel, Así de loco te puedes volver [That’s How Crazy You Can Get], was published. Following his three-year residence in Japan, Lengua de Trapo published Trenes hacia Tokio [Trains bound for Tokyo], El talento de los demás [The Talent of Others] and Tatami (2008). El estatus [The Status] is his latest novel.