Alfonso Vila Francés

Alfonso Vila was born in Valencia in 1970 and currently lives there. He considers himself to be an idiotic writer: 'What happens if, just for a moment, we erase all work from its author's biography? What is left? A lot of the time I worry that it is a lot of mistakes and a catalogue of stupidity, an erratic, confused and lamentably wasted life.'. Alfonso has lived in Tarragona, Barcelona, Orihuela, Madrid, Brussels and Debrecen (Hungary). He has worked as a playground supervisor, a librarian, an archivist and a secondary school teacher and currently writes for Jot Down magazine. He has won various literary prizes including the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Jaume Roig Prize, the Vila de Canals Prize, the Diputación de Castellón's prize, the Ciudad de Getafe's prize, the prize awarded by the Cortes Valencianas, the Marco Fabio Quintiliano Prize and the Mariano Roldán Prize and his first novel has just been published.