Rafael Alé Jiménez was born in Utrera (Sevilla), on 17th March 1968 while in the spring was getting underway in Paris. He went to the Salesianos school in Utrera and completed his university studies in Spanish in Seville and Italy. Separated, father of one son, he teaches language and literature in high school, as well as foreign languages and religion.
He was a weekly contributor to the radio programm Protagonistas on Punto Radio, Sevilla, directed by the journalist Patricia García Mahamud.
He has written a YA novel on classical Spanish literature which also serves as a learning aid; a novel about the difficult of being homosexual in Catholic surroundings; a collection of poems; a story for younger children; and a collection of lay sermons. With the Barcelona author Esther Gómez Menú, he has co-written a thriller based on social media.
Free-thinker and with a deep knowledge of the Western cultural and literary tradition, he writes across all genres, confident in the capacity of humans to perfect themselves and in literature as “a weapon loaded with future”.
Works
THE KISS OF DEATH
A strange and apparently casual discovery in the South Pole sets off a series of events that will take Blanca…
THE SHIPWRECKED SUMMER
Javi Roto will always remember the summer when he was first kissed. In the green fields of Galicia, his personal…
LA FÓRMULA TERRADAS
In February 1923, Albert Einsten visited Barcelona to explain his Theory of Relativity, invited by Esteban Terradas, a Catalan physicist.…
While i love you
Spanish world: Esfera de los Libros, 2021 A hundred poems on love, loss, anticipation and disillusionment, with evocative illustrations. A…
MAGGIE SCRATCH
How did a young rebel from the Jewish neighbourhoods in Philadelphia find her home in the Valley of the Son…
FLOW! Find happiness in the present moment
The concept of Flow and that of mindfulness have a lot in common This book is an excellent practical exploration…
THE ACCIDENTAL IMPOSTOR
Shortlisted for Premi Ramón Llull 2005. Catalan: Editorial Columna, 2007 Quim Tarrés is a mediocre artist who has ended up…
EL ARCABUCERO Nº 61
On 17th July 1642, 61 harquebusiers were sent to Vinaroz to block the advance of the French troops. However, one…
JUSTICIA / JUSTICE
Bilbao, November 2014. Four people are killed within a few days of each other: Camilo, a young Cuban married to…
THE PAST NEVER FORGETS US (EL PASADO NUNCA NOS OLVIDA)
On unearthing a German fighter plane from the marshland in El Prat de Llobregat near Barcelona airport, the forensic lab…
SOLAS (ALONE)
February 2015 and the mountainous countryside outside Bilbao is in the fierce grip of winter, with heavy snowfalls and freezing…