Photo: Peter Peitsch (2011) / www.peitschphoto.com
Sample of authors
Muñoz Molina, Antonio
The Spanish author Antonio Muñoz Molina was born at Úbeda in Jaén, Andalucia where he attended the Santo Domingo Savio Jesuit primary school and San Juan de la Cruz upper-secondary school. He then went on to read history of art at Granada and journalism at Madrid.
Muñoz Molina made his literary debut in 1984 with a collection of columns previously published in the daily newspaper Ideal in Gra...
Sample of authors
Gaboriau, Émile
While Edgar Allan Poe, the American author of short stories, is generally considered to be the father of modern crime fiction, Émile Gaboriau has been cited as the father of the crime novel. He was the first to use at least four defining elements of the genre: 1) He wrote briefly and succinctly compared to his contemporaries and his novels are driven by the crime plot. 2) His protagonists are ...