Manuel Vilas is a poet, and his poetry has been collected in Una sola vida. His fiction began with España, followed by novels such as Aire Nuestro and short story collections such as Setecientos millones de rinocerontes. He is the author of the travel book América. His novel Ordesa has been translated into more than 20 languages, was named Book of the Year by Babelia, won the Prix Femina, awarded in France for the best foreign novel, and Le Monde said that ‘reading Manuel Vilas is like walking through a magnificent place blindfolded’. Alegría (2019), translated into several languages, was a finalist for the Planeta Prize. In 2021 he published Los besos. His novel Nosotros was awarded the 2023 Nadal Prize for Fiction, and in 2024 he published El mejor libro del mundo. He has now just published Islandia. He contributes to El País, La Vanguardia, RNE and Cadena SER.