Xavier Aliaga (Madrid, 1970), a graduate of Catalan Philology, is a journalist and writer. He has worked for the Spanish newspaper El País and for several literary publications such as Caràcters, L’Espill o L’Illa. Currently he is head of the cultural section at the weekly news magazine El Temps and is a columnist for three regional newspapers: Levante-EMV, El Punt-Avui and La Veu del País Valencià. He has published seven novels and has won the Critics Prize for Valencian Fiction Writers three times, and other literary regional awards as the Joanot Martorell, Andròmina dels Octubre, Samaruc and the Pin i Soler award from the city of Tarragona.
