Although he earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago, it was in Cambridge where Isaias Fanlo (Lleida, 1980) ultimately pursued his career as a professor. A cultural manager, translator, and author of numerous articles, he has also written the essay El llibre rosa de gais i lesbianes, which he published in Columna in 2004, when he was only 23 years old, had been working on his first novel for almost a decade, El pes de la boira [The weight of the fog], finally published by Pagès Editors. Set in an inland town crossed by the Segre River and named Rotunda—for its circularity but also for its extreme climate: "six months of winter and six of summer," says one of the characters—it narrates the "decisive months" in which young León loses his father, meets new friends, and becomes aware of his homosexual desire.