Santiago Alba Rico
Santiago Alba Rico is a writer and essayist. He studied Philosophy at the Complutense University in Madrid. During the eighties, he was the scriptwriter of the legendary television show La bola de cristal. He has authored more than twenty books on politics, philosophy and literature, as well as three children’s stories and one theatre production. His essay Las reglas del caos was a finalist for the 1995 Anagrama Prize. Since 1998, he has been focused on the Arab world, having translated into Spanish the Egyptian poet Naguib Surur and the Iraqi novelist Mohammed Jydair. He has also taught literature classes at the Cervantes Institute for several years. His latest books are Ser o no ser (un cuerpo) (Seix Barral, 2017), Todo el pasado por delante (Los libros de la catarata, 2017) and Nadie está seguro con un libro en las manos (Catarata, 2018). He regularly contributes to different media such as Público, Cuarto Poder, CTXT, Diari ARA or El País, among others. In 2019, within the project Última hora, he collected his radio collaborations at the program Carne Cruda.