Author´s books
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The mysterious case of the Black Death
Born in Valencia in 1945. He has been visiting professor at the Colegio de Europa (Brujas) and invited researcher at Fitzwilliam College (Univ. of Cambridge), at Gonville and Caius College (Univ. of Cambridge) and at King’s College (Univ. Of London). He has been a member of the Collage of Experts on Cultural Heritage at the European Council, and in this function, he has undertaken assessment missions in historical cities in Central and Eastern Europe. He has also worked for nearly ten years as director of the Instituto Cervantes, both in Naples and in Brussels.
Strictly in the field of literature, he has published two books of short stories in Spanish (the first book of Las crónicas perdidas, Valencia: Victor Orenga Eds., 1983, and Crónicas perdidas, Bruselas: Excritos, 2003); a novel, also in Spanish: Salta Lenin el Atlas, Valencia: Prometeo, 1981 (Finalist in the award “La Sonrisa Vertical”), and others in Catalan: Les tribulacions d’un espia vell, Barcelona, Destino, 2006, and Escacs de Mort (the winning work in the 2009 edition of the prize for narrative in Valencian of the Institución Alfons el Magnànim), Barcelona, Bromera, 2010.