Andreu Martín was born in Barcelona in 1949. At six years of age he started to play at writing and, for the rest of his life he’s been learning to write playing. He was a comic-strip writer for ten years, after which he began to write novels and he's still writing novels. A film —directed by Vicente Aranda— was made of his prize-winning novel Pròtesi (Prosthesis, 1979), after which he produced many more novels, including Por amor al arte (For Love of Art, 1982), Història de mort (Death Story, 1988), Barcelona Connection (1990), as well as the series for young people —jointly written with Jaume Ribera— about the detective Flanagan. There are more than ten titles now published in the series, which has been awarded several prizes

His work has been translated into German, French, Italian, Dutch, Lithuanian, Basque and the Asturian language Bable. Among the prizes he has received are the National Prize for Young People's Literature, (1989), the Deutsche Krimi Preis (best crime novel published in Germany in 1982), the Hammett Prize (of the International Association of Crime Writers, in 1989 and 1993), Columna Jove Prize (1994), the "Serra d'Or" Critics' Prize (1997), and La Sonrisa Vertical award (2001). He has also written theatre and scripts for television and cinema.

He is a member of the Association of Catalan Language Writers (AELC).


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Update: Toni Terrades and Carme Ros.
Photograph: Author's personal files.
With support from the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (Institute of Catalan Letters).