Fernando Arias (Valencia, 1947) has a degree in Information Science. He has worked as a reporter, documentary maker and art critic. He directed the weekly Bulevar and worked as a correspondent for the BBC in London. He has written audio-visual scripts for production companies such as Antea Films and Somni, and has collaborated with many news organizations from the mythical magazine Triunfo to the regional supplement of El Pais in the Community of Valencia. He has published the novels Concierto Salvaje (1979), Pajaros de altura (1984), El canalla ceremonioso (1988), and Diluvio de cenizas (1994), as well as the non-fiction works Los graffiti: juego y subversion (1977) and La Valencia de los años treinta: entre el paraíso y el infierno (1996). In 1999 the Deputation of Valencia awarded him the Alfonso el Magnanimo prize for his unpublished novel El ojo hambriento.
