Javier Azpeitia (Madrid, 1962) is the author of the novels 'Mesalina' ('Messalina') (1989), 'Quevedo' (1990), 'Hipnos' ('Hypnos') (1996; winner of the Hammett Prize for crime writing and adapted for the cinema by the director David Carreras), 'Ariadna en Naxos' ('Adriadne on Naxos') (2002) and 'Nadie me mata' ('Nobody's Killing Me') (Tusquets Editores, 2007). He has edited the anthologies 'Poesía barroca' ('Baroque Poetry') (1996), 'Libro de amor' ('Book of Love') (2007) and 'Libro de libros' ('Book of Books') (2008) amongst others. He has been the literary director of the publishing houses Lengua de Trapo and 451 Editores, and taught on the Masters in Creative Writing at Hotel Kafka and on the Masters in Publishing courses at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the University of Salamanca. In 2015 he curated the exhibition '500 Years Without Aldus Manutius' at the National Library of Spain, and took part in the display 'La fortuna de los libros' ('The Luck of Books'), at the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, where one of Manutius's incunabula played a starring role.