Birthday
1943-01-11
Place of Birth
Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Eduardo Mendoza

Writing

Biography

Eduardo Mendoza Garriga (born 11 January 1943 in Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish novelist. Garriga studied law in the first half of the 1960s and lived in New York City between 1973 and 1982, working as interpreter for the United Nations, and then tried to become a lawyer and then he realized that he wanted to be a writer. He maintained an intense relationship with novelists Juan Benet and Juan García Hortelano, poet Pere Gimferrer and writer (and neighbour) Félix de Azúa. He currently lives in London. In 1975, Garriga published his very successful first novel, La Verdad sobre el Caso Savolta...

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