A graduate in Hispano-American literature, he is a novelist, essayist, journalist and author of screenplays for the cinema and is one of the great names in world literature. He won the Café Gijón Prize in 1997, the Hammett Prize in 1998 and 1999 as well as the Insular Americas Prize in 2002. He is the author of a tetralogy entitled The Four Seasons which is published in fifteen countries.

Main prizes: Raymond-Chandler Prize for all of his work, Roger Caillois Prize, Princess of Asturias Prize for Literature.