ANTONIO SOLER (Málaga, 1956) has published thirteen novels, many of them prize-winning. His third novel, Las bailarinas muertas ( The Dead Dancing Girls), won the Premio Herralde, establishing his reputation as key exponent of modern Spanish narrative. El nombre que ahora digo ( The Name I Now Speak) is considered by some as one of the best depictions of life in the Republican sector during the Spanish civil war. Another of his novels, El camino de los Ingleses ( Summer Rain), was made into a film in 2006 by Antonio Banderas. Sur is the first of his novels to be translated into English.