Javier Azpeitia (Madrid,
1962) has published four novels: Mesalina
(1989), Quevedo (1990), Hipnos (1996 – awarded the Hammett Prize
for Crime Fiction and brought to the big screen by David Carreras) and Adriana en Naxos (2002). As a literary
editor, he is the author of a thematic anthology of poems by Góngora, Lope and
Quevedo (Baroque Poetry, 1996), an
edition of La vida es sueño (1997),
and of an anthology of Flos Sanctorum
by Pedro de Ribadeneyra (Vidas de santos,
2000). His works have been translated into French, Greek, and Russian.