Jose Ovejero has published novels, collections of short stories, travel books, poetry and drama. He has been awarded a variety of prizes such as the Ciudad de Irun prize for his poetry book Biografia del explorador (1994); the Grandes Viajeros prize for the travel book China para hipondriacos (1998); the Primavera prize for the novel Las vidas ajenas (2005); the Ramon Gomez de la Serna prize for La comedia Salvaje (2011); the Anagrama prize for his essay La etica de la crueldad (2012); and the Alfaguara Prize for the novel La invencion del amor (2013). His books have been translated to several languages.His articles and short stories have been published in many journals, magazines, and anthologies in Spain and abroad. He has given lectures and directed creative writing workshops in universities and cultural institutions in Spain, Italy, USA, Belgium, France, Argentine, Mexico, Ecuador, etc. He lives now mainly in Madrid
"Nothing Ever Happens is a humorous book at times, and at times tragic. In it, Jose Ovejero unfolds his narrative arts (along with the masks of his characters), playing with the idea of "Nothing ever happens around here ... Or does it?" to dismantle the mechanisms of our good conscience, and to show the underlying conflicts and tensions in a world where appearances rule over reality."-Three Percent Blog; "One of those stories that grabs the reader on the very first page and then confronts him with his own conscience on the last." -El Cultural
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