Albert Salvadó


Albert Salvadó i Miras is an Andorran writer and industrial engineer. He writes in both Catalan and Spanish.
Salvadó writes children's stories, essays and novels, often focusing on historical fiction. He has been described as having breathed new life into the historical novel in the Catalan language.
In the crime fiction genre, he has written El rapte, el mort i el Marsellès, and Una vida en joc, dedicated to the former Casino de la Rabassada.
In the suspense novel genre, he has written Un vot per l'esperança, a novel that won the title of "Selected Work" in the Plaza & Janés International Novel Prize in 1985 and L'informe Phaeton, which has received unanimous acclaim from the public, who say this is my most impressive novel.
In historical fiction he has written books set in different eras: The Teacher of Cheops ; L'anell d'Àtila ; Els ulls d'Anníbal ; La Gran Concubina d'Egipte ; the trilogy dedicated to James I the Conqueror s comprising: El punyal del sarraí, La reina hongaresa and Parleu o mateu-me; the trilogy dedicated to Ali Bey comprising: Maleït català, Maleït musulmà and Maleït cristià; and Obre els ulls i desperta, set in 17th-century Prague.

Selected works