Books by Manuel Vazquez Montalban

Manuel Vazquez Montalban is Barcelona's most prominent journalist and novelist. He writes a weekly column for El Pais. His books include a series of crime novels set in the city (Murdeer on the Central Committee, Souther Seas, The Angst-ridden Executive, The centre Forward Was Murdered at Dusk), a best-selling cookbook featuring Catalan recipes from the dishes whish appear in his fiction, and The Pianist, an epic accounht of the dashed hopes of the avant-garde in post-Franco Spain. He was awarded the prestigious Premio Nacional de Narrativa award in 1991.