A contributor to EL PAÍS, this year he published his latest novel, ‘Una gota de afecto,’ a tribute to the classics of the 19th century.

Guelbenzu liked to move around pages since he was a child, and even more so if jazz music was playing in the background. “When I was twelve or thirteen, I started a newspaper at home,” he once explained. He soon began his career in cultural journalism. His first job was as an editor and contributor to Cuadernos para el Diálogo, and at the age of just 23, he tried his luck and sent an original manuscript to the Biblioteca Breve Prize run by the Seix Barral publishing house, which had replaced the Nadal Prize as a platform for the re-founding of Spanish-language literature.

These were the years when a group of first-time authors were making a name for themselves (Luis Goytisolo, García Hortelano, Caballero Bonald, etc.) and provoking a mixture of admiration and envy that reached its zenith when Mario Vargas Llosa won the prize and gave rise to the Latin American boom.

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