Eduardo Mendoza Garriga is a Spanish novelist. Born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, he studied law in the first half of the 1960s and lived in New York between 1973 and 1982, working as interpreter for the United Nations. He maintained an intense relationship with novelists Juan Benet and Juan Garc�a Hortelano, poet Pere Gimferrer and writer F�lix de Az�a. In 1975 he published his very successful first novel, La verdad sobre el caso Savolta, where he shows his ability to use different resources and styles. The novel is considered a precursor to the social change in the Spanish post-Franco society and the first novel of the transition to democracy. He describes the union fights from the beginning of the 20th century, showing the social, cultural and economic reality of the Barcelona at the time. A year later he was awarded the Critic Prize. His most acclaimed novel is probably La ciudad de los prodigios, about the social and urban evolution of Barcelona between the Universal Expositions of 1888 and 1929. It was adapted to the screen by Mario Camus in 1999. 

January 11th, 1943 in Barcelona (Age 81)