Matthew Tree was born in London, far too long ago. He taught himself Catalan in 1979, and began writing and publishing in that language in 1990, for reasons of his own (don’t ask, I’m trying to keep this short). He reverted to his mother tongue (English) in 2006. In all he has published 13 books in Catalan, including essays, short stories, diatribes, novels, a road book and an autobiography. He has also published five novels in English, the latest of which, ‘We’ll Never Know’ came out in February of 2024.