
Juan Manuel Gil is a writer and a teacher. His first book, Useless Guide to a Shipwreck (2004), earned him the Andalusian Young Poet’s Award. Since then he has focused on novels: Inopia (2008);
The Vertebrate Islands (2017) and A Man Underwater (2019). He is also the author of two unclassifiable books: My Father and I: A Western (2012), winner of the Argaria Prize, and Hipstamatic 100, a collection of texts that combine life and current events.