Born in Barcelona in 1972, the author has been a literary critic for La Razón since 2000, and writer and editor at Qué Leer, as well as collaborating with the magazines Clarín since 1999, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, and the El País travel supplement. He has written four novels: Alone in the Bars of the Night (2002), Hildur (2009 and 2015), The Solitude of the Shooter (2017) and The Ghost of Truth (2018), and the poetry collections Soul in Words, Poetry Reunited 1990-2010 (2015) and the apocryphal Poetic Anthology of Suicide (twentieth century) (2015). With The Uncontainable Passion, Success and Rage in North American Narrative (2013) he won the sixth Amado Alonso award for international literary criticism, and his most recent books are The Most Powerful God. The Life of Walt Whitman (2019), The Fruit of a Diverse Life. Articles on North American Literature (2020) and Fictitious Realism (2021).