Born on 21 June 1948 in Aldershot (England). He studied at Sussex University and at East Anglia University where one of his teachers was Malcolm Bradbury. His first book was a collected stories entitled “Pirmer amor, utlimos ritos” (1975), later in 1997 he published “Amor perdurable”, considered by many as a masterpiece in which his main character suffers form Clerambault syndrome. In 1998, in a polemic atmosphere, he received the Man Booker Prize for his novel “Amsterdam”.