Giles Tremlett

Giles Tremlett is a prize-winning Anglo-Spanish author, journalist, lecturer and broadcaster based in Madrid, Spain. He has lived in Spain almost continuously since graduating from Oxford University, writing extensively about Iberia and Latin America as a correspondent for The Guardian and The Economist while contributing to a wide range of English language and Spanish media. Giles won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography for Isabella of Castile, Europe’s First Great Queen. He is the author of the best-selling historical travelogue Ghosts of Spain and the biography Catherine of Aragon, Henry's Spanish Queen (Radio 4 Book of the Week). Giles has also written a history of The International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War and España, A Brief History of Spain. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and has guest lectured or participated in seminars at universities across the United States, Britain and Spain – including Stanford, MIT and Oxford.