Najat el Hachmi was born in Morocco in 1979 and moved to Spain in 1987. Her first novel L’últim patriarca (Planeta, 2008), won the Ramon Llull Prize 2008 and the Prix Ulysse, and was translated into eleven languages. Her novels La caçadora de cossos (2011) and La filla estrangera (2015), were followed by Mare de llet i de mel (2018).