The novelist opens the doors of his studio in his native Barcelona, the city where some of his most famous novels take place.

Like Ernest Hemingway, Eduardo Mendoza (Barcelona, 1943) has always written standing up and by hand.

His library, he says, is "purely functional, modest and sufficient." Mendoza has always been a nomad. In London, he studied Sociology. In New York, when “La verdad sobre el caso Savolta,” came out, he worked as a translator for the UN. Settling down in a place, living in the same house, buying furniture, paintings... has never been his thing.  “That is why I am a person who loves to read, but who does not have a special attachment to books as objects,” he explains standing in front of the only bookcase that runs along the wall of his office.

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