Manuel Talens (Granada, Spain 1948) is a novelist, translator and a well known political analyst on the Spanish-language electronic alternative media. He has published two novels, La parabola de Carmen la Reina and Hijas de Eva, as well as three short story collections, Venganzas, Rueda del tiempo and La sonrisa de Saskia y otras historias minimas. He is actually preparing the edition of a third novel, La cinta de Moebius, due next fall of 2006. As a translator, apart from an intense activity on www.rebelion.org, where he is in charge of the foreign languages translation’s committee, he has put into Spanish more than fifty books of fiction, semiotics, Psychiatry, theater, essay and cinema, of authors who range from the French Georges Simenon to the British Tibor Fischer or the American Edith Wharton, and including among many others Groucho Marx, Paul Virilio, Blaise Cendrars, Derek Walcott, Georges Hyvernaud, Geert Lovink, James Petras, Donna J. Haraway. He is a founding member of Tlaxcala the network of translators for linguistic diversity (www.tlaxcala.es).
His website is www.manueltalens.com.