Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

Juan Pedro Aparicio was born in León. Since 1975, the year he published "El origen del mono y otros relatos" (The Origin of the Monkey and Other Stories), he has written novels ("Lo que es del César", "El año del francés", "La forma de la noche", "Malo en Madrid o el caso de la viuda polaca", "El viajero de Leicester" and "La gran bruma") and short story collections. He has also delved into essays, travel books, and... - Read more

Luisa Castro was born in Foz (Lugo) in 1966 and holds a degree in Hispanic philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. A twenty-one she was awarded the Premio Hiperión de Poesia, for Los Versos del Eunuco  ( The Eunuch’s Verses ), and at twenty-four was the runner-up of the Premio Herralde de Novela for El Somier ( The Mattress ). Ever since, she has worked as a literary critic and collaborated for newspapers such as... - Read more

For forty-five years, Cela occupied the Chair Q of the Spanish Royal Academy of Language and won the Premio Principe de Asturias de las Letras in 1987, the Premio Cervantes in 1995 and, of course, the Nobel 1989.  The jury on this last prize highlighted the “provocative vision of helplessness in all human being” present throughout all of the author’s output; a vision that soaks “The Family of Pascual Duarte”,... - Read more

Luis Cerezo (Barcelona, 1969) studied Arts in the Escola Massana and Music at Barcelona’s Liceo. He has combined literature with boxing, musical composition, cameraman, as well as an early career as a jazz musician. For fifteen years he worked as an advertising creative director and film and television screenwriter—activities which he has juggled with musical composition and independent filmmaking.  In 2004, he directs and... - Read more

Julio Crespo MacLennan (Madrid, 1970) is a graduate and doctor in History from the University of Oxford. He has taught at universities in Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States and has been a visiting professor as the Prince of Asturias Chair at Tufts University and Santander Iberian Studies Fellow at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. He served as cultural attaché and director of the Cervantes Institute in Istanbul... - Read more