Giles Tremlett

About

Giles Tremlett is a prize-winning journalist, author, biographer and narrative historian based in Madrid, Spain. He writes mostly for The Guardian - specializing in Long Reads and political analysis. As a former correspondent for The Economist and The Guardian he has traveled widely across Iberia, the Maghreb and Latin America. Other output includes BBC radio documentaries, NY Times, LRB, New Statesman, Prospect & Vogue.He speaks fluent Spanish (and less-fluent Portuguese) and has been a regular current affairs commentator for La Sexta & Canal 24 Horas television stations as well as Spain's biggest talk radio station, Cadena SER. He also comments occasionally for the BBC, CNN, Al-Jazeera and other English-language broadcasters. He co-founded the Docubeats project at The Guardian & El País.His five non-fiction books have sold some 400,000 copies in seven languages. They include historical biographies of Isabella of Castile (2018 Elizabeth Longford Prize) and Catherine of Aragon (2010 BBC Book of the Week, HW Fisher Prize short-list), a history of The International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War (Guardian Book of the Day) & best-selling political-historical travelogue Ghosts of Spain (2006).He has spoken at many universities, think tanks, and festivals, including Stanford, Oxford, M.I.T, Southampton, Granada, Aspen Institute, Club Siglo XXI, Fundación Alternativas, Royal Geographical Society, National Portrait Gallery, Cervantes Institute, Hay-on-Wye, Cheltenham and Edinburgh.He is a former Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He advises Cre100do, a non-profit that helps mid-sized Spanish companies and journalism transparency group Compromiso y Transparencia. He co-founded British in Europe, which lobbied governments on the rights of displaced UK and EU citizens following Brexit. He has sat on the juries of journalism prizes awarded by EFE/King of Spain, IESE business school and El Mundo newspaper, as well as the Princess of Girona international youth prize.