Jesús Ferrero

Who is Jesús Ferrero?

Jesús Ferrero is a Spanish writer born in 1952 in the Spanish province of Zamora.

After completing his secondary education he studied literature in Zaragoza for a while and then moved to Paris to study ancient Greek history at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales.

Jesús Ferrero, like Javier Marías or Antonio Muñoz Molina, is a writer of that new Spanish prose which developed after La Movida Madrileña, one of the early post-modern currents. He has written numerous novels, poetry collections, short stories, essays and screenplays. He is, among other things, co-author of Pedro Almodóvar's film Matador.

Ferrero's debut, chinese-set novel 'Belver Yin' was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed in post-Franco Spanish literature, and helped him to establish himself as one of the major writers of La Movida years. With novels set in Tibet, Barcelona or Berlin, Ferrero continued during the eighties a literary exploration characterized by eclectic intertextuality.

Fererro’s book 'El Efecto Doppler', follows a precise choreography which shows the protagonist, Darío, caught up in a complex tale.