Albert Espinosa

Albert Espinosa is a Catalan author, screenwriter, actor, and director whose fiction often connects premises with questions about memory, friendship, and emotional choice. Everything You and I Could Have Been If We Weren’t You and I follows Marcos in a speculative world where people can eliminate sleep and where he can perceive another person’s most important memories. A sudden assignment and an encounter with a stranger interrupt his plan to stop sleeping, turning the novel toward intimacy, secrets, and the value of dreams. The work first appeared in Spanish as Todo lo que podríamos haber sido tú y yo si no fuéramos tú y yo before reaching English-language readers. Espinosa also created the Catalan television drama Pulseres vermelles, adapted internationally as Red Band Society, and wrote The Yellow World from experiences that informed his stage and screen work. His professional range helps explain the novel’s quick scenes and visual conceit: its speculative device operates less as forecasting than as a way to dramatize empathy and connection.