Juan Jose Millas is the recipient of Spain's most prestigious literary prizes: the Premio Nadal, Premio Planeta, and Premio Nacional de Narrativa. A regular contributor to El Pais, Millas has also won many awards for his journalism. He is the author of several short story collections and works of nonfiction as well as over a dozen novels, including From the Shadows, the first of his novels to be published in North America. He lives in Madrid.
Thomas Bunstead is a writer and translator of leading Spanish-language writers, including Eduardo Halfon, Agustin Fernandez Mallo, Juan Jose Millas, and Juan Villoro. His co-translation of Enrique Vila-Matas's A Brief History of Portable Literature was a semifinalist for the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize. He also writes for the Times Literary Supplement and Paris Review Daily and is an editor of the literary translation journal In Other Words. He lives in Lewes, England.
Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor, and translator with some fifty books to his name, including novels by Jose Eduardo Agualusa, Eduardo Halfon, and Juan Jose Millas. His translations from Portuguese, Spanish, and French include fiction from Europe, Africa, and the Americas and nonfiction by writers ranging from Portuguese Nobel laureate Jose Saramago to Brazilian footballer Pele. He is also the editor of the new Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. He lives in Lewes, England.