Xavier Vidal

Born in Barcelona, where he attended medical school and became a medical doctor, Xavier was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, and lived and studied in Boston (USA) for several years, obtaining two Masters degrees from Harvard University. For 20 years he worked as General Manager for several multinational biotech companies and international advertising agencies. Through the years he has written screenplays for films, theater plays, musical theater shows (book, music, and lyrics), newspaper articles, and novels. He has written articles about New Zealand subjects as a foreign correspondent reader for the digital edition of La Vanguardia, one of the main newspapers in Spain. In 2019, his novel UXMALA was selected as Finalist in the VII HISPANIA Historical Novel Literary Prize.

Xavier writes all his novels in two languages, Spanish and English, and lives in Auckland (New Zealand) with his family.