Alex Vella Gera was born in 1973 in Malta, bang in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. After a childhood and adolescence in isolated daydreaming, he packed his bags and moved to Prague, where he made one important acquaintance: himself. It was there that he first started to write in his mother tongue (Maltese) instead of the long-preferred English. Three decades and three novels in Maltese later, with Prague a distant memory and Brussels his home for more than fifteen years, he is approaching the English language with fresh eyes and a renewed sense of adventure.