Xavier Aliaga (Madrid, 1970), a journalist and writer with a degree in Catalan Philology, is currently culture editor for the weekly El Temps and member of the Valencian Council of Culture (CVC). He is a writer, journalist, and scriptwriter and has worked with and for several media outlets in press, radio, and television, as well as in the area of political and cultural communication. Since 2007, he has specialised in cultural journalism in several branches of the media.

Among his novels are Si no ho dic, rebente (2005, winner of the Premi Vila de Lloseta Fiction Prize), Els neons de Sodoma (2009, winner of the Andròmina Prize for Fiction in the 2008 Premis Octubre awards), and Vides desafinades (2011, winner of the Gandia Joanot Martorell Prize for Fiction, and the 2012 Valencian Writers Critics’ Award for Fiction). He has also written the young people’s novel El meu nom no és Irina (2013, Valencian Writers Critics’ Award for Fiction and the 2014 Samaruc Prize) and the crime novel Dos metres quadrats de sang jove (2014). In 2017, his novel Les quatre vides de l’oncle Antoine received the City of Tarragona Pin i Soler Prize for the Novel, and also the Valencian Writers Critics’ Award. His two most recent novels are Ja estem morts, amor (2021, finalist for the Llibreter and Finestres awards) and Això no és un western (2024, finalist for the València Negra Prize).

His short stories have been published in several anthologies and collective volumes.

He is a member of the Associació d’Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (AELC – Association of Catalan Language Writers).

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Cover photograph: © Carles Domènec.
Translation: Julie Wark.