Eduardo Mendicutti was born in Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz) in
1948. In 1972 he moved to Madrid where
he obtained a degree in Journalism and where he has lived ever since. He has
won prizes such as the Café de Gijón and Sésamo. He has published over ten works, all of them
enthusiastically received by critics and public alike, and which have been
translated into different languages. Two of his novels, El palomo
cojo and Los novios búlgaros,
have been brought to the big screen, the first directed by Jaime de Armiñán and
the second by Eloy de la Iglesia. His novel El
ángel descuidado won the Critics’ Prize in Andalucía in 2002.