Aliocha Coll

The pseudonym of Javier Coll Mata (Madrid, May 6, 1948–Paris, November 15, 1990), Aliocha Coll was a Spanish writer and translator raised in Barcelona who spent several years of his adult life in Paris, where he committed suicide after completing Attila. He is the subject of "Everything Bad Comes Back" by Javier Marías, and believed in Finnegans Wake as the "starting point" for contemporary literature. In addition to Attila, he wrote a couple novels, a play, and several essays, but the majority his work was either published posthumously or remains unpublished, despite Spanish super agent Carmen Balcells backing him throughout her life as the future of Spanish literature.