Eduardo Mendoza i Garriga (Barcelona, 1943-) Catalan writer in Spanish. His thematic is the literature of action treated with humour and sarcasm.
One of the writers of novel more highlighted in the current panorama, his works are a big success of public such how:La verdad sobre el caso Savolta (1975), El misterio de la cripta embrujada (1979), El laberinto de las aceitunas (1982), La ciudad de los prodigios (1986), La aventura del tocador de señoras (2001), El asombroso viaje de Pomponio Flato (2008), Riña de gatos. Madrid, 1936 (2010), El secreto de la modelo extraviada (2015).
He has achieved a long list of guardons between which highlight: Prize of the Critical of Narrative Spaniard (1976), Prize City of Barcelona (1986), Cross of Saint Jordi (1995), International Prize Terenci Moix (2009), Prize Planet of Novel 2010) and Prize Cervantes (2017), among others.