Ángela Vallvey has published several children's books and won the Jaen Poetry Award in 1998 for The Size of the Universe, a captivating collection of poems of scientific curiosity and a fascination for the beauty and paradoxes of the world and the universe. Her Born in Captivity collection won a prize at the Ateneu de Sevilla in 2006. She wrote On the Hunt for the Last Savage Man (1999), Ways of Extinction (2000), The States of Want (2002), which won a Nadal Award and sold in large numbers, the story collection Don't Call it Love (2003), The City of the Devil (2005), All the Dolls are Carnivores (2006), Death Among Poets (2008, finalist for the Planeta Award), The Man with the Black Heart (2011), and While the Others Dance (2014). Her work has been translated into several languages and published by prestigious publishing houses.