J.Á. González Sainz was born in Soria (1956) and currently lives in Trieste (Italy). He has also lived in Barcelona (where he graduated in Philology), Madrid and, for almost twenty years, in Venice. He earned the Premio de las Letras de Castilla y León in 2006, an award that had previously been given to, among others, Carmen Martín Gaite, Luis Mateo Díez, Torrente Ballester and Miguel Delibes.