Eduardo Mendoza
Eduardo Mendoza
Author • Translatorb. 1943-01-11 · From Spain- Books
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Eduardo Mendoza Garriga (Barcelona, 11 January 1943) is a Spanish novelist, playwright and translator. Trained as a lawyer, he lived in New York from 1973 to 1982, working as a translator for the United Nations.
His debut novel, La verdad sobre el caso Savolta (1975), won the Premio de la Crítica in 1976; the Cervantes jury later credited it with inaugurating a new phase in Spanish narrative. Most of his fiction is set in Barcelona and mixes crime and gothic writing, science fiction, satire and parody.
His novels include El misterio de la cripta embrujada (1979), La ciudad de los prodigios (1986), Sin noticias de Gurb (1991), Una comedia ligera (1996) and Riña de gatos. Madrid 1936 (2010), published in English as An Englishman in Madrid.
He received the Premio Planeta in 2010, the Franz Kafka Prize in 2015, the Premio Cervantes in 2016 and the Premio Princesa de Asturias de las Letras in 2025.
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Yes. Eduardo Mendoza was awarded the Premio Miguel de Cervantes in 2016, the highest honour in Spanish-language letters. The jury cited him for his 1975 debut La verdad sobre el caso Savolta, which it said inaugurated a new phase in Spanish narrative, and praised a literary language "full of subtlety and irony". The prize recognises a writer's whole career rather than a single book.
Alongside the 2016 Premio Cervantes, Mendoza received the Premio Princesa de Asturias de las Letras in 2025, presented in Oviedo that October — another award given for a career rather than a single book. His debut La verdad sobre el caso Savolta won the Premio de la Crítica in 1976, and Riña de gatos. Madrid 1936 won the Premio Planeta in 2010. He was also awarded the Czech Franz Kafka Prize in 2015 for his body of work.