Juan Francisco Ferré

Juan Francisco Ferré (Málaga, 1962), writer and literary critic, studied Law and graduated in Spanish Philology. From 2005 to 2012 he was invited lecturer and researcher at Brown University, teaching narrative, film, and Spanish and Latin American literature.

He is a regular contributor to specialist magazines and cultural publications in Spain and worldwide (ArteletrA, Bazar, Letras Libres, The Barcelona Review, Hueso Húmero, Inti, Letra Internacional, Quimera, etc.), publishing short stories, and articles and essays about aspects of literature, film and the arts.

He is the author of the anthologies El Quijote. Instrucciones de uso (E.D.A. Libros, 2005) and Mutantes (Berenice, 2007), in collaboration with Julio Ortega. He has published the book of literary studies Mímesis y simulacro. Ensayos sobre la realidad: del Marqués de Sade a David Foster Wallace (E.D.A. Libros, 2011) and the fiction collection Metamorfosis® (Berenice, 2006). Among his novels we find La vuelta al mundo (Pálido Fuego, 2002), I love you Sade (E.D.A. Libros, 2003), La fiesta del asno (DVD Ediciones, 2005), Providence (Anagrama, 2009), finalist for the Herralde Prize, Karnaval (Anagrama, 2012), winner of the Herralde Prize, and El Rey del Juego (Anagrama, 2015).

In 2019, he published her latest novel, Revolución (Anagrama), with which he won the Andalucía de la Crítica de Narrativa Prize 2020, and in 2020 the book of short stories Exorcismos (Maclein y Parker).