An Iraqi writer, academic, and translator residing in Spain, Abdulhadi Sadoun is a professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Madrid. He holds a PhD in Arts and Philosophy from the same university. His published works include: Today He Wears a Blood-Stained Suit (1996), Framing Laughter (1998), Family Forgeries (2002), The Mouth Bird (2006), Fields of the Stranger (2010), Memoirs of an Iraqi Dog (2012), Tostala (2014), Report on Theft (2020), and Pedro Almodóvar’s Cinema (2023). In addition to these, he has published dozens of works in Spanish—poetry, fiction, translations, critical studies, and curated anthologies of selected Arabic literature. His contributions to literary criticism also include books on Arab women’s poetry, the Mu‘allaqat, and visual arts.