Pere Calders (Barcelona 1912-1994) started writing in the 1930s, but it was after the civil war, during his exile in Mexico (1939-1962), that he wrote one of his most accomplished works: Hidden Truth Chronicles (1955), a collection of stories where he definitively develops his style. The novels L’ombra de l’atzavara [The Shadow of the Agave] (1964) and Ronda naval sota la boira [Sea Journey in the Fog] (1966) confirm him as one of the greatest Catalan writers of the twentieth century.