Pedro Menchén is a Spanish writer, born in 1952. Known especially for his Trilogy of Dark Love, comprising the novels A Distant Beach (1999), See you in Casablanca (2001) and Don’t Come Back Here Any More (2005), he has also published two books of short stories: Who Can Listen to a Guy who Comes through Your Window Stark Naked at Midnight? (1988), which gained him the first prize of the city of Alcalá, y Bloody Lips (2002), plus one short novel: So Long, Kid (1989), winning the City of Barbastro Prize, and an autobiography: Written in Water (2011), all of which have confirmed him as one of the most interesting authors of present-day Spanish literature.