Bio

I am a Gibraltarian author based in the North of England. I have written seven novels – The Escape Artist, Diary of a Victorian Colonial, Solitude House, Jonathan Gallardo, Gooseman, The Fetishist and Marlboro Man – as well as numerous stories, essays, articles and works of non-fiction. In 2022 My novel Marlboro Man was published in an anglophone edition and another aimed at bilingual Llanito-Engliish readers. I have followed the same template with my latest book Lowlife Tales. I lived on the Rock until the age of twenty-seven, when I moved to the UK to study English Literature. I took BA, MA and PhD degrees at the University of Leeds, completing my studies in 2004 with a thesis entitled 'Anti-Spanish sentiment in English literary and political writing, 1553-1603.' Since then I have lived mainly in the UK, but have also done stints in New Zealand (2004), India (2005-2008) and, more recently, Japan (2014-2016). Over the years I have talked about issues of Gibraltarian identity on radio progammes such as the BBC World Service's 'The Cultural Frontline', ABC Australia's 'Late Night Live' and Antena Caro's 'Lletres Ebrenques'. I have also spoken in front of audiences at the University of Salamanca, the University of Turin, the University of Basel, the University of the Balearic Islands , the University of Cambridge, the University of Lisbon, the University of Portsmouth, the University of Northumbria, the University of Strasbourg, the University of Barcelona, the University of Gibraltar and other universities. I am an affiliate member of the Variation in English Worldwide (ViEW) team at the University of Vigo and an honorary member of the Associazione Italiana Studi Culture e Letterature di Lingua Inglese (AISCLI). In 2024 I helped edit the volume Gibraltarians and their Language: Twenty-two Linguistic Biographies along with academic colleagues at the Universities of Vigo and the Balearic Islands. Below is a list of articles, reviews, and interviews about my books. Most titles can be clicked for more information.

Chapters in Books

Esterino Adami, ‘La Rocca di Babele: narrazioni e trasformazioni linguistiche in M. G. Sanchez,’ Ritorno a Babele: prove di globalizzazione (Turin: Neos Terrenia, 2013), pp. 71-81.

Esterino Adami, ‘A Passage to Gibraltar: Alterity and Representation in M. G. Sanchez,’ Postcolonial Passages: incursions and excursions across the literatures and cultures in English (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018), pp. 204–214.

Esterino Adami, ‘Text Analysis 2: Extracts from Jonathan Gallardo and Border Control and other Autobiographical Pieces,’ Postcolonial Stylistics (Abingdon: Routledge, 2025), pp. 201-209.

Tijana Parezanović, ‘Border Imagery in M. G. Sanchez's Literary Cartography of Gibraltar: Rock Black and Jonathan Gallardo,‘ in Spatiality in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures (Abingdon; Routledge, 2026), forthcoming.

Laura Wright, ’On Anaphora: C. B. Poultney and M. G. Sanchez’, in Grammar for English Students (Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024), pp. 149-153.

Journal Articles

Esterino Adami, ‘Language and emotions in Mark G. Sanchez’s Marlboro Man,’ Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: Special Issue on Gibraltar, forthcoming late 2026.

Ilaria Barbuto, ‘Marginality and Resistance in M. G. Sanchez’s Jonathan Gallardo: A Postcolonial Reinterpretation of Gibraltar,’ Margins/Marges/Margini, 3, 2025, pp. 139–157.

Isabel Alonso Breto. ‘Gibraltarian Border Dialogues and Beyond: A Journal on M. G. Sanchez’s Bombay Journal,’ Mediterranean Dialogues: Transdisciplinary Journeys Across Cultures, Languages and the Arts for a Partnership Future (Udine: Forum Editrice Universitaria Udinese, 2025), pp. 15-26.

Rebecca Gabay, ‘M. G. Sanchez’s Bombay Journal: Redressing the Past from the Colonial Present,’ Kervan International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies 22, 2018, pp. 291-294.

Amanda Gerke, ‘Discursive Boundaries: Code-Switching as Representative of Gibraltarian Identity Construction in M. G. Sanchez’s Rock Black,’ Miscelánea 57, 2018, pp. 35-57.

Ina Habermann, ‘British-European Entanglements: M. G. Sanchez’s The Escape Artist and the Case of Gibraltar,’ Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings 2, 2018, pp. b1-20.

Ina Habermann, ‘Gibraltarian Hauntologies: Spectres of Colonialism in the Fiction of M. G. Sanchez,’ Open Library of Humanities 6:1, 2020, p.19.

Ana María Manzanas Calvo, ‘The Line and the Limit of Britishness: The Construction of Gibraltarian Identity in M. G. Sanchez’s Writing,’ ES Review 38, 2017, pp. 27-45.

Ana María Manzanas Calvo, ‘Crossed Lines in M. G. Sanchez’s Borderlander’, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: Special Issue on Gibraltar, forthcoming late 2026.

Alastair Niven, ‘Celebrating an Abundance, 1984–2019: Thirty-five Literary Highlights from Aotearoa to Zimbabwe,’ Wasafiri 34, 2019, pp. 133-138.

Tijana Parezanović, ‘Liminally Anglophone Wor(l)ds: M. G. Sanchez’s Gibraltarian Stories,’ Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies, 16, 2024, pp. 383-398.

John A. Stotesbury, ‘Mediterranean Gothic: M. G. Sanchez’s Gibraltar Fiction in its Context,’ British and American Studies 21, 2016, pp. 156-172.

Laura Wright, ‘Gibraltar, Llanito and Marlboro Men’, 9 West Road, vol. 23, spring 2024, pp. 23-24

Reviews

Esterino Adami, ‘Recensione di Jonathan Gallardo,’ Il Tolomeo 18, 2016, pp. 233-35.

Esterino Adami, ‘Recensione di Solitude House,’ Il Tolomeo 17, 2015, pp. 185-187.

Christine Berberich, ‘Review of Gooseman,’ Wasafiri 111:3, 2022, pp. 116–118.

Isabel Alonso Breto, ‘Review of Border Control and other Autobiographical Pieces,’ Complutense Journal of English Studies 28, 2020, pp. 229-231.

Isabel Alonso Breto, 'Review of Lowlife Tales', Nexus 16: 2, 2025. pp. 111-113.

Robert Patrick Newcomb, ‘Review of Border Control and Other Autobiographical Pieces,’ International Journal of Iberian Studies 33:1, 2020, pp. 107-108.

Robert Patrick Newcomb, ‘Review of Gooseman,’ Hispania, 104:4, 2021, pp. 750-751.