Córdoba, 1970. His most recent works are the poetry collection Tiempo (2009), the essay Pasadizos. Espacios simbólicos entre arte y literatura (2008), and his “work in motion”, Circular 07. Las afueras (2007), described by Eloy Fernández Porta as a ”total novel”. He has been awarded the Premio Málaga de Ensayo, the Premio Andalucía Joven de Narrative in 2005 and the Premio Arcipreste de Hita in 1999. In his well-known blog Diario de lecturas he carries out cultural criticism, exploring new genres of inter-artistic analysis such as video review, cultural passageways or hypercriticism. Doctor of Contemporary Spanish Literature, with a degree in Law and another unfinished one in Philosophy, frustrated guitarist and cultural agent, he is currently the director of the Cervantes Institute in Albuquerque, the United States.