Manuel Vilas was born in Spain in 1962. He is an award-winning poet and novelist. Ordesa has sold over 100,000 copies in Spain and has gone on to become a phenomenon across Europe, being translated into fifteen languages. Ordesa is the first of his works to be translated into English and was the winner of the Prix Femina étranger 2019. He currently resides in Madrid.
Andrea Rosenberg is a translator from Spanish and Portuguese. Her full-length translations include novels and graphic narratives by Tomás González, Inês Pedrosa, Aura Xilonen, Juan Gómez Bárcena, Paco Roca and Marcelo D’Salete. Two of her translations have won Eisner Awards, and she has been the recipient of awards and grants from the Fulbright Program, the American Literary Translators Association and the Banff International Literary Translation Centre.