Emilio Calderón

Emilio Calderón (Málaga, 1967) is a historian, editor, and writer. For ten years, he devoted himself exclusively to children’s and young adult literature, publishing works such as Continúan los crímenes en Roma, Julieta sin Romeo, El último crimen de Pompeya, and El misterio de la habitación cerrada, achieving notable success with more than fifty reprints of his works.

His first adult novel, El mapa del creador, was published in 2006 after he enjoyed a literary creation grant at the Royal Spanish Academy 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 Fernando Lara Novel Prize, Planeta), which has already been translated into English, and whose rights have also been sold in Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, Ukraine, and Croatia.

In October 2009, he was a finalist for the Planeta Prize with La bailarina y el inglés. Los sauces de Hiroshima (Editorial Planeta), published in October 2011 and translated into English, completes his “Asian trilogy.” In 2012, with La cosecha humana (Editorial Planeta), the author ventured into the crime fiction genre. In 2013, La biblioteca (Editores de Zut) was released, a captivating story about books set in the National Library of Madrid, described by the author as his most mature and complex novel. In 2015, he published his latest novel, Círculos.

In 2016, he won the II Stella Maris Biography and Memoir Prize for a biography of Vicente Aleixandre, titled La Memoria de un Hombre está en sus besos.