LORENZO SILVA is a Spanish writer. His extensive literary output includes novels such as The Faint-hearted Bolshevik, which was a Nadal Prize runner up, the series of detective novels featuring two Civil Guard police officers, Bevilacqua and Chamorro, among them El alquimista impaciente (Nadal Prize) or La marca del meridiano (Award Planet). He has also published numerous non-fiction books and novels for children and young people.