Ignacio Abad (León, 1980), has also published the novel 'En Düsseldorf no hay ni puede haber leones' ('There Aren't, Nor Can There Be, Lions in Dusseldorf') with the same publisher. This won the 2019 Leonese Book of the Year Prize, awarded by the Leonese government's Instituto Leonés de Cultura. He lives in Tokyo. His next novel will be published in 2022.