Jesús Carrasco


Jesús Carrasco is a Spanish writer. He was born in Badajoz in 1972. He held a wide range of jobs in his youth, from PE teacher to grape-picker to graphic designer. In 1992, he moved to Madrid where he began his writing career. In 2005, he moved to Seville, where he still lives.
Carrasco's debut novel Intemperie appeared in 2013 to critical acclaim. It won a number of prizes and was nominated for several more. His second novel La tierra que pisamos won the EU Prize for Literature.