安德烈斯·纽曼（Andrés Neuman）诗人，作家，“波哥大39社团”成员，被英国《格兰塔》杂志评为“西班牙语最杰出的青年作家”之一。1977年出生于布宜诺斯艾利斯，14岁时全家定居西班牙。作为移民音乐家之子，他目前在格拉纳达大学教授拉丁美洲西语文学课程。22 岁发表第一部小说《巴利罗奇》（1999），进入艾拉尔德小说奖的决选名单，并被西班牙《世界报》评为年度十佳小说之一。随后发表《窗间的生活》（2002）和自传体小说《阿根廷往事》（2003），分别进入春天小说奖和艾拉尔德小说奖的决选名单。《世纪旅人》（2010）斩获2009年西班牙丰泉小说奖、2010年西班牙文学批评奖，同时入围2013年英国“独立报外国小说奖”六人决选名单。2012年出版小说《自我交谈》。

Praise for the "literary ambition and quality of a novel that recovers the inspiration of 19th-Century narrative, written from a contemporary approach and magnificently set in post-Napoleonic Germany." 2009 Premio Alfaguara Jury El viajero del siglo is an ambitious experiment. It invites us to look at the 20th Century with 19th-Century eyes. Searching for an inn to spend the night, Hans stops his horse-drawn carriage in Wandernburgo, a city located between Saxony and Prussia. The following day he happens upon an organ grinder in the city's market square. Moved by the music, he approaches the man, giving him some money. The become fast-friends and Hans' stay in the town extends indefinitely. In a reception party for personalities and prominent families, Hans meets other ardent individuals and, more importantly, the daughter of one of them, a woman named Sophie. Even though the young woman is engaged, a love is unfolds between them that threatens a masked murderer that patrols the city