JUAN ANTONIO MASOLIVER RÓDENAS (Barcelona, Spain, 1939) is Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of Westminster in London and writes regularly as a literary critic for the renowned Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia. He is the author of a great number of essays, poems, short stories and novels, and has translated authors such as Cesare Pavese, Giorgio Saviane, Carson McCullers, Djuna Barnes and Vladimir Nabokov into Spanish.