Agustín Fernández Mallo was born in La Coruña in 1967 and is a qualified physicist. His Nocilla Trilogy, published between 2006 and 2009, brought about an important shift in contemporary Spanish writing and paved the way for the birth of a new generation of authors, known as the 'Nocilla Generation'. In 2018, his novel The Things We've Seen won the prestigious Biblioteca Breve Prize. Atom Heart Mother is his sixth novel with Fitzcarraldo Editions.