Care Santos was born in Barcelona, in 1970. She studied Law at the Universitat de Barcelona, but started her writing career from an early age, publishing articles in national and international publications. Today, she is a literary critic for El Cultural, the cultural supplement of El Mundo. She was awarded several prizes, including Ciudad de Alcalá of narrative (1995), Ana María Matute of short stories (1998), Ateneo Joven de Sevilla of narrative (1999), Gran Angular of young narrative —in Catalan—(2000), Edebé of young narrative (2003), Alfonso de Cossío of short stories (2003), Gran Angular of young narrative —in Spanish— (2004) and Alandar of young narrative (2005). Her books have been translated into several languages, including Italian, German, Portuguese, Lithuanian, besides the Spanish regional languages (Catalan, Galician and Basque).