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A prolific and highly prestigious author, he has published the novels La tinta simpática (Seix Barral, 1988), El buque fantasma (Plaza & Janés, 1992. Plaza & Janés International Novel Award, 1992), La malandanza (Plaza & Janés, 1996), Días y noches (Espasa Calpe, 2000), La noche de los Cuatro Caminos (Aguilar, 2002), Los amigos del crimen perfecto (Destino, 2003, Nadal Prize 2003), translated into several languages, Al morir don Quijote (Destino, 2005; Fundación José Manuel Lara Award 2005 to the Best Book of the Year according to Spanish publishers and  Prix Européen Madeleine Zepter, in France) and Los confines (Destino, 2009). His latest work is the novel Ayer no más (Destino, October 2012)

He is also the author of a diary grouped under the title Salón de pasos perdidos. Una novela en marcha (Pre-Textos, 1990-2011). The first ot these book was  El gato encerrado (1990) and the latest volume published to date is Miseria y compañía (April 2013).

Among his essay collections are Clasicos de traje gris (Diputación de Albacete, 1990; Valdemar, 1997), Viajeros y estables (Diputación de Albacete, 1992; Valdemar, 1997), Las vidas de Miguel de Cervantes (Planeta, 1993), Las armas y las letras. Literatura y guerra civil 1936-1939 (Planeta, 1994. Premio Don Juan de Borbón, 1995 / Destino, 2010), Los nietos del Cid (Planeta, 1997), Sólo eran sombras (Pre-Textos, 1997), El escritor de diarios (Península, 1998), Imprenta moderna: tipografía y literatura en España, 1874-2005 (Campgráfic Editors, 2006), El arca de las palabras (Fundación José Manuel Lara, 2006) and Los vagamundos (Barril & Barral, 2011). His extensive work as a critic and writer of articles is brought together in the volumes Los desvanes. One of his articles published in La Vanguardia was awarded the Miguel Delibes Prize 2005 and the Julio Camba National Journalism Award 2007.

His first four books of poetry were complied in Las tradiciones (1991), a work followed by Acaso una verdad  (Pre-Textos, 1993, National Critics’ Prize, 1993), Rama desnuda (Tusquets, 2001), El gorrión y sus cómplices re-Textos, 2003), Un sueño en otro  (Tusquets, 2004, Buchet-Chastel, Francia, 2005) and Segunda oscuridad (Pre-Textos, 2012).

Last but not least, among this author’s dedication to literature, his work as an editor at the helm of Trieste publishers and La Veleta collection (of the Grenadine publishers Comares), stands out particularly – both positions characterised by their great quality in terms of both form and content.

- 2010 Castilla y León Prize for Literature for a work ‘in which all literary genres come together and, above all, for the balance struck between rescuing forgotten authors and admiring and promoting the most modern literary trends.’

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