Julio Castedo was born on April 1, 1964 in Madrid, Spain as Julio Castedo Valls. He is a writer known for his novels "El jugador de ajedrez", "Apología de Venus", "El fotógrafo de cadáveres" and "Redención", and he is the screenwriter of the film El Jugador de Ajedrez (2016), based on his own novel.