The author
Antonio Garrido was born in Linares in 1963. He studied Industrial Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Las Palmas. At present, he combines his work as a writer as well as lecturer at the Cardenal Herrera-Ceu University of Valencia and as Director of the Master Car Styling at the CFP of the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
His first novel, "The Scribe ", published in 2008 by Ediciones B, immediately achieved international success, translating into English, Russian, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Polish, Croatian, Serbian and Romanian, rising with the Prix desLecteurs Selection 2010 and finalist of the Prix Fulbert de Chartres.
His next novel "The corpse reader ", published in 2012 with Espasa, consecrates him as a historical novelist by earning him the International Prize for Historical Novel City of Zaragoza for the best historical novel published in Spain. Prix Griffe Noire, and was selected for the Edgar Allan Poe AwardsUSA in the Best Original Paperback category.
In the United States, under the title The Corpse Reader, reached in June 2013 the No. 1 position of absolute sales on Amazon.com in all genres, fiction and nonfiction, being the first Spanish author to achieve it. It has been translated into English, Russian, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Croatian, Serbian, Romanian, Korean and Bulgarian languages.
In 2015, with "The Last Paradise", he won the prestigious Fernando Lara Award. Published by Planeta, and translated into numerous languages, it receives unanimous recognition from critics and audiences, confirming itself as one of the most outstanding talents of our literature, and joins its name to the winners of
previous editions such as Terenci Moix, Ángeles Caso, Francisco Umbral or Zoé Valdés.
In 2019, he returns to the historical thriller with "The Garden of the Enigmas", a thrilling novel set in Victorian London, which have been published with Espasa, having closed its translation into several languages, even before its publication in Spanish.