Juan José Millas (1946, Valencia) is a Spanish writer and journalist, winner of the Sesamo, Nadal, Primavera awards, as well as the National Prize for Prose "Planet" (2007). Irony, subtle psychologism and insight, the ability to see the events of everyday life from completely unexpected, fantastic angles, give Milyas’s prose a unique originality and charm. The novel “In Alphabetical Order” (1999) constructs a fantastic world in which the conventionality of any orders, laws and schemes And the hero refuses to perceive the reality imposed on him, not wanting to lose the ability to think, compare and draw his own conclusions.