Carles Batlle Jordà. Barcelona, 1963. Playwright, teacher at the Barcelona Theatre Institute and associate tutor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Editor of the magazine Pausa. He has been a member of the Advisory Council for the Catalonia National Theatre and playwright at that theatre. Carles Batlle is accustomed to success outside his country. His play Temptation has been translated into a dozen languages and he was director of the international festival New Plays from Europe (Wiesbaden, Germany).