Roberto Santiago was born in Madrid in 1968. He studied Image and Sound at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid and Literary Creation at the Madrid School of Writing. He has worked as a TV screenwriter, an editor for Madrid advertising agencies and a video clip producer and has published several novels. Among others, his collection Footballisms is a publishing phenomenon that has become one of the bestselling collections of children's literature in Spain in recent years and has been translated into several languages. His first novel, The Lie Thief, was a finalist for the Barco de Vapor Prize, and he won the Edebé Prize for Children's Literature with Jon and the Fear Machine. He has recently started writing the saga The Time Strangers.