Emilio Calderón (Málaga 1967) is a historian, editor and writer. For ten years he devoted himself exclusively to children's and young adult literature and published, among others, Continúan los crímenes en Roma, Julieta sin Romeo, El último crimen de Pompeya and El misterio de la habitación cerrada, reaping notable successes with more than fifty reeditions of his work. His first novel for adults, El mapa del creador, was published in 2006, after enjoying a scholarship for literary creation at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. This work immediately became an international success and has been published in twenty-three countries. In September 2007 he published El secreto de la porcelana, and in June 2008 El judío de Shanghai (XIII Premio de novela Fernando Lara, Planeta), which has already been translated into English, and whose rights have also been sold in Germany, Holland, Romania, Ukraine and Croatia. In October 2009 he was Finalist of the Planeta Prize with the work La bailarina y el inglés, Los sauces de Hiroshima (Editorial Planeta), published in October 2011 and translated into English, closes his "Asian trilogy". In 2012, with La cosecha humana (Editorial Planeta), the author entered the noir genre. In 2013 saw the light, La biblioteca (Editores de Zut), a gripping story about books that takes place in the National Library of Madrid, the most mature and complex novel according to the author. in 2015 he published his latest novel, Círculos. In 2016 he won the II Stella Maris Prize for Biography and Memoirs for a biography of Vicente Aleixandre, entitled La Memoria de un Hombre está en sus besos.
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