Iñaki Abad (born 1963,

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) is a

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writer. He studied Spanish

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at university and worked as a journalist and radio announcer before moving to

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to teach at the

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. In 1991, he joined the

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; he has since directed the centres to Naples, Milán, and Prague. In 2002, having spent a decade in Italy, he wrote his first novel based on his memories of Bilbao. ''El hábito de la guerra'' was a spy novel, as was his second novel, ''Los malos adioses en Nápoles''. Five years later, he set another spy novel in Naples, titled "Los malos adioses" (2007); both novels are centered around a mysterious Spanish intelligence officer, Fernando Sanmartín de Mayorga. He compiled his short stories in "Barbarie y otros relatos" (1996).

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