Giles Tremlett is an author, journalist and broadcaster. He is the Madrid

Madrid

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 correspondent for the Guardian

The Guardian

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 newspaper
and a regular contributor to The Economist

The Economist

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. He is also a current affairs commentator for Spain's state-owned TVE television and for the country's biggest radio station, Cadena SER.
He graduated in Human Sciences (Anthropology) at the University of Oxford in 1984. He has also studied at the Universities of Barcelona and Lisbon.

He moved around the world from an early age as, in his words,"an army brat"
and had his first taste of Spanish life when he lived in Barcelona

Barcelona

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 for two years in the mid eighties.
After a period in Lisbon

Lisbon

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 and then in London

London

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, he returned to live in Spain

Spain

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 at the beginning of the 1992 Olympics

1992 Summer Olympics

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. He
currently lives in Madrid with his wife Katharine Blanca Scott and their two children Lucas and Samuel.

His book Ghosts of Spain: Travels through a country’s hidden past (2007) was translated into five languages and
sold over 100,000 copies worldwide.

In 2010 he published a biography of Catherine of Aragon, the Spanish infanta who was Henry VIII's first wife, with Faber and Faber in London and Walker in New York. Catherine of Aragon was BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in November 2010 and sold some 20,000 copies in hardback in the United Kingdom. It was due to be published in Spanish and Russian in 2012.

Publications

• Ghosts of Spain Faber and Faber
  Faber and Faber
  Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T. S. Eliot. Faber has a rich tradition of publishing a wide range of fiction, non fiction, drama, film and music...
  
  . ISBN 978-0-571-22169-1
• Catherine of Aragon Walker & Company. ISBN 978-0-8027-7916-8