Santiago Posteguillo

Santiago Posteguillo is a Spanish novelist and professor of English language and literature born in 1967 in Valencia. He is Spain's most successful historical novelist, known for sweeping, meticulously researched novels about ancient Rome. His fiction has introduced millions of Spanish readers to the history of Rome and has become one of the great publishing successes in recent Spanish literary history. Posteguillo is the author of two major Roman trilogy series. The Africanus Trilogy — beginning with Africanus: El hijo del cónsul (2006) — follows Scipio Africanus through the Second Punic War. The Trajano Trilogy — beginning with Los asesinos del Emperador (2011) — covers the reign of Trajan, the Spanish-born Roman emperor. Yo, Julia (I, Julia), his 2018 Premio Planeta winner, is a historical novel narrating the life of Julia Domna, the Syrian empress and philosopher queen who was the wife of Emperor Septimius Severus. The novel is characteristic Posteguillo — rigorously researched, dramatically compelling, and centered on a historically neglected figure. Posteguillo is one of the best-selling Spanish authors of his generation and has done more than perhaps any other writer to bring Roman history to a mass Spanish readership.