Novelist, poet and essayist, author of the renowned Pepe Carvalho series, he also contributed columns and articles to El País, that with this piece pays a tribute to the prolific Spanish writer, who died in Thailand on 2003.

“Manolo was reputed shy. It's true that he put an armor between him and the world. A shell that occasionally broke with a lash of his overweening literary imagination.” Read the complete story here.