Vicente
Muñoz Puelles was born in Valencia in 1948.
Apart from his three erotic books, Tusquets
Editores published two more of his novels: Sombras Paralelas (Paralell Shadows), recreated on film by
Gerardo Gormezano, and El Ultimo Manuscrito de Hernando Colón (The Last Manusript of Hernando Colón).
He is also the author of another six
novels, some of which are: La
Emperatriz Eugenia en Zululandia (The Empress Eugenia in Zululand), which
won the Azorín Prize in 1993 and the
Literary Criticism Prize of Valencia in
1995, and Yo, Colón (I, Columbus),
whose French version won the «Ascension
pour la Lecture» Prize in 1994, awarded by the youth of BrianÇon. He has
also published two collections of short
stories. He has been awarded with the City
of Valencia Prize on two occasions. He has edited two books about Columbus
and Cabeza de Vaca, and has translated the works of Fenimore Cooper and Joseph
Conrad.