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Giles E.H. Tremlett (born 1962 inPlymouth)[1] is a historian, author and journalist based inMadrid, Spain.
Tremlett is author of five works of history and non-fiction that have been translated into half a dozen languages. He won theElizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography in 2018. He has held various roles forThe Guardian, including as chief correspondent in Iberia and as a Long Reads writer.[2] He previously wrote forThe Economist. He was a Visiting Fellow at theLondon School of Economics for five years from 2016.
He graduated in Human Sciences at theUniversity of Oxford in 1984 and has also studied at the Universities ofBarcelona andLisbon.
He lived inBarcelona for two years in the mid-1980s. After a period in London he returned to Spain in the mid-1990s. He wasThe Guardian's correspondent for Spain, Portugal and the Maghreb for a dozen years. He wasMadrid correspondent forThe Economist for a decade until 2016. In 2012 he was voted Correspondent of the Year by the Madrid International Press Club. He has been a regular current affairs commentator for Spanish broadcasters, including state-owned TVE television, La Sexta and the country's biggest radio station,Cadena SER, as well as contributing to newspapers likeEl País orEl Mundo. He was co-founder and curator of theDocubeats documentary project atThe Guardian andEl País.
He has been a guest lecturer on journalism or contemporary Spanish history and participant in seminars at numerous universities, including Oxford, MIT and Stanford.
His bookGhosts of Spain: Travels through a country's hidden past (2007)[3] was translated into five languages.
In 2010 he published a biography ofCatherine of Aragon, the Spanishinfanta who became Henry VIII's first wife, withFaber and Faber in London and Walker in New York.Catherine of Aragon wasBBC Radio 4's "Book of the Week" and was short-listed for the HW Fisher Best First Biography Prize. It has been translated into Spanish, Russian and Polish.
His biography ofIsabella of Castile – the Spanish queen who sent Columbus to the Americas – was published in 2017.[4] It won theElizabeth Longford Prize in 2018.[5] It was a top-selling history book in Spain in 2018 and has also been translated into Portuguese and Chinese.[citation needed]
In October 2020 he publishedThe International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War, which was a Guardian newspaper "book of the Day". It draws on archive material held in Moscow and recently made available to historians. According to the historianSir Paul Preston, it provides "in lucid and compelling prose, the overall history of the Brigades that has been lacking".[citation needed] In popular media opinions differ from generally favourable though warning that the volume might seem "overly sympathetic to the Brigades",[6] to the statement that "this book is as close to a definitive history as we are likely to get".[7]
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)Critical studies and reviews of Tremlett's work:
Ghosts of Spain
Catherine of Aragon
Isabella of Castile
The International Brigades
España: A Brief History of Spain
