Eduardo Garrigues won the Café Gijón Short Novel Award in 1961 with El canto del Urogallo, he was shortlisted in the Sesamo Award in 1971 with Lecciones de tinieblas and, in 1973 won Pío Baroja Short Stories Award with Artículo Sexto.

Since, he has managed to combine his diplomatic career with his literary vocation and his passion for the exotic places and adventure. His work Lluvias de hierba, set in postcolonial Kenya, was published in New York by MacMillan in 1984. He has also published Al oeste de Babilonia (Plaza & Janés) and La Dama de Duwisib (Martínez Roca 2008)