Antonio Gómez Rufo (Spain, 1954) discovered his literary vocation in his early teenage years, and during his university studies wrote his first book, an essay titled Aproximación al concepto de Revolución Cultural, which was published many years later under the title El hombre asustado.

Gómez Rufo studied Law at the Complutense University of Madrid, and during his studies began contributing journalistic articles to various media outlets.

In 1978, he began his professional career as a lawyer and advisor to the Directorate-General for Cinema at the Ministry of Culture. Gradually, he consolidated his literary activity and published two books: a biography of Karl Marx and the essay Ecología y Constitución.

In 1979, he joined the Spanish Film Archive (Filmoteca Española), founded a debate platform called Club Cultura y Sociedad, and participated in the creation of several associations and NGOs.

In 1983, he was appointed director of the Aula de Cultura and the Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid. That same year, he published the short story collections Ópera 5 and El último verano de la familia Manela, as well as the novel El último goliardo, which was a finalist for the La Sonrisa Vertical Prize (Tusquets). He also continued his journalistic work as a contributor to El País, where he had been collaborating for several years.

Between 1987 and 1992, he published several books: Así es Madrid; the novels Natalia, El Club de los Osos Traviesos, Aguas tranquilas, aguas profundas, and El carnaval perpetuo; the essays Madrid, bajos fondos and Juegos eróticos de salón; and the children’s story El cazador de nubes.

From 1991 to 1994, he worked on his novel La leyenda del falso traidor and contributed to various media outlets. Over the past several years, he has delivered lectures, participated in roundtables and seminars, and engaged in literary discussions. His work during this period includes contributions to magazines such as Leer, La Gaceta del Libro, the books section of Guía del Ocio, and Revista del Sur, published in Malmö, Sweden.

The novel La leyenda del falso traidor has been continuously reprinted since 1994 and has become a reference work on the Rome of Julius Caesar.

In 2005, he won the Fernando Lara Novel Prize with El secreto del rey cautivo. His subsequent works include La noche del tamarindo (Planeta, 2008), La abadía de los crímenes (Planeta, 2011), La más bella historia de amor de Paula Cortázar (Planeta, 2012), La camarera de Bach (Planeta, 2014), and Madrid, la novela (Ediciones B, 2016).

Gómez Rufo is a member of the Editorial Committee of GALERNA magazine (Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA). He is a Knight of the Francisco de Quevedo Literary Order and vice president of the Spanish Association of Writers (ACE). He has served as president of the Madrid Literary Circle and as a member of the board of the IPADE Foundation (Institute for Development). He is currently a member of the Spanish Section of the World Alliance Against Poverty (founder and coordinator of the Writers for Peace platform) and a member of the Spanish Association of Crime Writers.