Giles Tremlett

I am the Madrid correspondent for The Guardian newspaper and website, covering Spain, Portugal and Morocco. I also write on Spain for The Economist. I am the author of two works of non-fiction - "Ghosts of Spain" (a lengthy piece of reportage) and "Catherine of Aragon" (biography - a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week), which have sold some 150,000 copies between them and have been translated into half-a-dozen languages.

My reporting ranges from rapid "news blogging" for the Guardian website, via newspaper articles and analysis to long-form magazine pieces (including for Vogue Man in the U.S., The Observer magazine, The Times magazine, Lonely Planet and others). I cover everything from politics and the economy to culture and sport. In 2011 I won the Best Foreign Correspondent award from Madrid's Club Internacional de la Prensa.

Television and radio appearances include CNN, BBC, PBS, Sky News, Antena 3, TVE, La Sexta, Telecinco, Canal+ and radio stations in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Colombia and South Africa. I have also worked as a regular current affairs commentator (in Spanish) on Spain's largest radio network, Cadena SER, and on state-owned rolling news channel TVE 24 Horas.

I have lectured on the history and contemporary politics of Spain at M.I.T., Williams and Hofstra in the U.S. and at Oxford University, Southampton University and the Royal Geographical Society in the United Kingdom. I also give regular talks to journalism students in Spain and have appeared at literary festivals in Edinburgh, Cheltenham and Segovia.

Previous jobs included working with The Times (of London), The European, The Sunday Express and United Press International.

I speak fluent Spanish, workable Portuguese and rusty French.

I started my journalistic career at the Reuters bureau in Lisbon, Portugal, and then at the Kentish Times, West London Gazette and London Evening Standard.

I have a degree in Human Sciences from Oxford University and have also studied at universities in Lisbon, Portugal, and Barcelona, Spain.

Book reviews

GHOSTS OF SPAIN, Faber (UK), Walker (US), Siglo XXI (España). Alêtheia (Portugal), Atlas (Netherlands), Algoritam (Serbia/Croatia), Nanjing U.P. (China)

"Giles Tremlett, Madrid correspondent for The Guardian of London, begins “Ghosts of Spain,” his affectionate, deeply informed tour of the country that has been his home for 20 years, by disturbing the dead. The appalling atrocities committed by both sides during the Civil War keep coming to light, for those willing to look, or speak. Bones of the thousands of victims on both sides, hastily buried along roadsides, still turn up, a national shame that few Spaniards wish to address for fear of disturbing a successful consensus." William Grimes, New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/books/21grim.html
"Elegant first-person prose… invaluable… a country could scarcely hope for a better, or more enamored, chronicler.” Sarah Wildman, New York Times Book Review http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/books/review/wildman.t.html

CATHERINE OF ARAGON, Faber (UK), Walker (US), Crítica (España), Fluid/Gorodets (Russia), Astra (Poland).
"Tremlett rises to it splendidly.... he writes with the fluency of the novelist, and... has based his account on the original sources, both published and unpublished,” Prof. Sir John Elliott, New York Review of Books.
"Enthralling .... Tremlett brilliantly breathes life into the shadowy figure of a stubborn and finally heroic woman," Miranda Seymour, Daily Telegraph.