Just over five years ago, Andreu Martín left Barcelona, ​​the city he had lived in since his birth in 1949, and settled in Sant Cugat del Vallès. Not even the idyllic calm of the street where he lives with his wife—the young neighbor downstairs "plays the piano like an angel," he assures—has managed to slow his creative pace. "There isn't a year that goes by that I don't publish a book," he admits. "If you want to make a living from writing and you haven't written a book, best-seller, you have to know something: you'll have to work hard."