Ferran Guallar (Barcelona, 1968) has spent a good portion of his life in Africa, leading a nature conservation program, living alongside researchers and monkeys, and studying them with a similar level of interest. In his past lives, he has been an executive in a corporation, a musician, a promoter of a program for empowering African entrepreneurs, a travel guide, and a video reporter in a hundred countries. He has lived with the Taliban, slept in lost pyramids in the middle of the desert, and worked in areas during the height of the Ebola epidemic, just before attempting his most challenging endeavour: stopping, sitting in a chair, and writing novels and scripts. Currently, he still holds an honorary consulting position for a chimpanzee reserve in Africa.