Manuel Jabois was born in Sanxenxo, Pontevedra, in 1978 and began his career in journalism with the newspaper Diario de Pontevedra. He moved on to El Mundo, and since 2015 he has worked for El País, writing reports, features and columns. He also has a daily feature on the programme Hora 25 with the radio station Cadena SER. He has also published the collection of articles Go to Madrid (2011), a brief memoir Wild Group (2012) and Manu (2013), and a long work on 9/11 called See You in This Life or the Next (2016). Malaherba (Alfaguara, 2019) sold more than 32,000 copies, and established him as one of his generation's most popular authors in Spanish.