Berta Dávila (Santiago de Compostela, 1987) is the author of poetry collections like "Corpo baleiro" (Empty Body, 2007) and "Raíz da fenda" (Root of the Crack, 2013: Johan Carballeira Prize, Spanish Critics' Prize, AELG Prize). Dávila's carreer as a novelist began with "Bailarei sobre a túa tumba" (I will dance on your tomb, Biblos Prize for Novels, 2008), which was followed by the book of short stories, "A arte do fracaso" (The art of failure, 2010) that has been translated into Spanish and Japanese. In 2013, she won the Repsol Prize for short fiction and the Ánxel Casal Prize for the best fiction book for "El libro final de Emma Olsen" (Emma Olsen's last book). She was also nominated for the Galician Association of Publishers' author of the year in 2014.