Alejandro Castroguer was born in 1971 in Málaga.He trained as a teacher, and among other things studied oil painting, when he developed a close friendship with his professor, José Díaz-Oliva.He has been writing from a young age, and was a finalist for the Premio Ateneo de Sevilla in 1992 with his first novel, 'Jeroglíficos de muerte y salvación'.After consolidating his literary vocation with various novels have now been destroyed ('Como una raya de tiza', 'Soñaba que soñaba', 'Las puertas', 'Horizonte Marfil' and 'Carcoma'), written during his time in Barcelona between 2000 and 2002, he wrote 'El bailarín de claqué'. Castroguer is part of the literary group 'Sevilla escribe', and his story 'El noctívago demacrado', a homage to Lovecraft, will appear in their forthcmoming anthology. He is the author of 'La octava noche, a novel that fuses science fiction with the detective genre.