Edgar Cantero

Edgar Cantero (Barcelona, 1981) is a writer, screenwriter and cartoonist. Said to be a promising figure in the field of Catalan literature when he was drawing comic strips for the magazine El Jueves, Cantero started his career with books such as Dormir amb Winona Ryder [Sleeping with Winona Ryder] and Vallvi, for which he was awarded prizes such as the Crexells and Ciutat de Badalona awards. In 2014 he decided to try writing in English, and it paid off: Meddling Kids, a work that sits somewhere between Enid Blyton and Lovecraft, was a New York Times bestseller and, thanks to later books, has now been translated into five languages. At Festival 42 he will be presenting his sixth novel, Ràdio Free Camaco (Empúries Narrativa), a True Detective-style book set in rural Catalonia that combines black fiction, social criticism and supernatural elements.