Winds of the Night

Joan Sales (1912-1983) was a Catalan writer, translator, and publisher. He obtained a law degree in 1932 and was a member of regional anarchist and communist groups. During the Civil War he fought on the Madrid and Aragonese fronts before going into exile in France in 1939. He moved to Mexico in 1942, returning to Catalonia in 1948, after which he began working as a publisher. Uncertain Glory, his crucial testament, was first published in 1956, though a combination of censorship and Sales' tendency towards revision meant that a definitive edition was not available until many years later.

Peter Bush is an award-winning translator who lives in Oxford. Among his translations are Josep Pla's The Gray Notebook, which won the 2014 Ramon Llull Prize for Literary Translation, and Ramón del Valle-Inclán's Tyrant Banderas (both for NYRB Classics); Emili Teixidor's Black Bread, Jorge Carrión's Bookshops, and Prudenci Beltrana's Josafat.

Paul Preston is a professor in the department of international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of a biography of Francisco Franco and several award-winning histories of the Spanish Civil War and Francoist Spain.