Born in Barcelona, Manuel Vazquez Montalban is probably one of the most famous modern Spanish authors, thanks mainly to his series of Pepe Carvalho detective novels. It doesn't matter that Pepe Carvalho is so palpably a native of Barcelona: he still manages to be appreciated all round the globe, and is even known in places as distant as China.
The 20 book series has been translated into many different languages (including English, not common at all for a foreign writer of detective fiction) and has as protagonist a Marlowesque character who loves his food and wine as well as beautiful women.
But the 20-book Carvalho series is only one of the highly prolific Vazquez Montalban's many achievements, since he is also famous for an extraordinary quantity of literary production including poetry, sociology, essays, political and current affairs pieces, literature.
Collaborator with the daily newspaper El País, Montalban was also playwright, writer about food, and author of other non series novels most of which are non mystery.
Winner of numerous prizes all over the world - including the French Prix de la Litterature Policière in 1981, he died in 2003 in Bangkok.
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