Luis López Carrasco is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. Co-founder of the audiovisual collective Los Hijos, his work has been screened at numerous international festivals. His last film, The Year of Discovery, won numerous national and international awards, including the Goya Awards for best documentary film and best editing. The White Desert is his first novel. Rosalind Harvey is a literary translator, whose work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, among others. She has translated Guadalupe Nettel's Still Born, along with work by Juan Pablo Villalobos and Elvira Navarro, among others. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Arts Foundation Fellow and a founding member of the Emerging Translators Network, and currently teaches on the MA in Literary Translation at the University of Warwick.