Javier Azpeitia

Javier Azpeitia (Madrid, 1962) is author of the novels Mesalina (1989), Quevedo (1990), Hypnos (1996; Hammett Noir Novle prize and adapted for cinema by director David Carreras), Ariadna in Naxos (2002) and Nobody Kills Me (Tusquets Editores, 2007). As a literary editor his publications include the anthologies Baroque Poetry (1996), Book of Love (2007) and Book of Books (2008). He was the literary director at publishing companies Lengua de Trapo and 451 Editores, and taught on the master's in creative writing for Hotel Kafka and the master's in editing at Madrid Autonomous University and Salamanca University. In 2015 he curated the exhibition 500 Years Without Aldo Manuzio at Spain's National Library, and took part in The Fortune of Books at the Lázaro Galdiano museum, at which one of the Manuzio incunabula was on display.