安德烈斯·紐曼（Andrés Neuman）詩人，作傢，“波哥大39社團”成員，被英國《格蘭塔》雜誌評為“西班牙語最傑齣的青年作傢”之一。1977年齣生於布宜諾斯艾利斯，14歲時全傢定居西班牙。作為移民音樂傢之子，他目前在格拉納達大學教授拉丁美洲西語文學課程。22 歲發錶第一部小說《巴利羅奇》（1999），進入艾拉爾德小說奬的決選名單，並被西班牙《世界報》評為年度十佳小說之一。隨後發錶《窗間的生活》（2002）和自傳體小說《阿根廷往事》（2003），分彆進入春天小說奬和艾拉爾德小說奬的決選名單。《世紀旅人》（2010）斬獲2009年西班牙豐泉小說奬、2010年西班牙文學批評奬，同時入圍2013年英國“獨立報外國小說奬”六人決選名單。2012年齣版小說《自我交談》。

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