Luis Mateo Diez was born in Villablino, mountain mining town northwest of Leon and located in the center of the region of Laciana. And just born "in the old mansion hall, seated in the heart of the valley on the old site where a day eregi Torre lifted the memory of the ancient councils." His family lived halfway between Madrid Villablino and until, at age 12, he moved to the city. Luis Mateo attended high school in the College Study. In 1961 she began studying economics at the Universidad Complutense, career ended and he combined with that of Philosophy and Letters. His first book of stories, Memorial herbs, appeared in 1973.
Novels published after provincial stations (1982), The Fountain of Age (1986), which won the National Book Award and the Critics Award, Apocryphon of carnation and the spine (1988) full hours ( 1990), The Record of the shipwreck (1992), Road Perdition (1995) The look of the Soul (1997), Paradise of deaths (1998), Days of Attic (1999), Ghosts of Winter (2004) and fables gathered in The Devil Meridian (2001) and in the echo of the wedding (2003 ) as well as the books of accounts Brasas August (1989) and The lesser evils (1993). With the destruction of Heaven (2000) won the National Fiction Prize and the Critics Award. Honor the patron of the Foundation of the Spanish Language. The Well My brother Alberto fell into the well when he was five. Was one of those family tragedies that only relieve time and circumstance of a large family. Twenty years later my brother Eloy drew water a day that well that no one had ever returned to peer. In the cauldron discovered a small bottle with a paper inside. "This is a world like any other," the message said.