Luisgé Martín (Madrid,1962) studied Hispanic philology at Madrid Complutense University and completed an MBA at IE Business School. He won the Ramón Gómez de la Serna prize for narrative, the Antonio Machado and the Vargas Llosa short story awards, the Llanes de Viajes award, and the 2020 Herralde award. Anagrama has published his novels The Shadow Woman, universally recognised as a masterpiece, The Same City, The Mistaken Life, the autobiography Love Backwards, and the essay The Brave New World.