Carlos Ruiz Zafón was a Spanish novelist known for his 2001 novel La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind). The novel sold 15 million copies and was winner of numerous awards; it was included in …
Carmen Laforet Y Díaz was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature and her f…
Amélie Nothomb, born Fabienne Claire Nothomb, was born in Etterbeek, Belgium on 9 July 1966, to Belgian diplomats. Although Nothomb claims to have been born in Japan, she actually began living in Japa…
Tarjei Vesaas was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Written in Nynorsk, his work is characterized by simple, terse, and symbolic prose. His stories often cover simple rural people that undergo a severe p…
Joe Abercrombie was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Manchester University, where he studied psychology. He moved into television production before taking up a career as a freelance film…
Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria A…
Aki Shimazaki is a Canadian novelist and translator. She moved to Canada in 1981, living in Vancouver and Toronto. Since 1991 she has lived in Montreal, where she teaches Japanese and publishes her no…
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, French author (c. 1695-Paris, 1755). She is considered the original author of the story of Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) which is the oldest known …
Delphine de Vigan is an award-winning French novelist. She has published several novels for adults. Her breakthrough work was the book No et moi (No and Me) that was awarded the Prix des Libraires (Th…
Aurora Venturini was born in 1922 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated in Philosophy and Education Sciences at the National University of La Plata. She was an adviser to the Institute o…
Alberto Méndez (Madrid, 1941 — 2004), hijo del traductor José Méndez Herrera, fue un narrador español. Nació en Madrid, donde transcurrió su infancia. Estudió bachillerato en Roma y se licenció en Fil…
Petra Hartlieb wurde 1967 in München geboren und ist in Oberösterreich aufgewachsen. Sie studierte in Wien Psychologie und Geschichte und arbeitete danach als Pressefrau bei verschiedenen Verlagen in …
De ascendencia conquense, nació en 1987 en Madrid. Se licenció en Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y posteriormente realizó un máster en Sexología en la Universidad de Alcalá…
Se convirtió en ilustradora a la tierna edad de 6 años, ella aún no lo sabía, pero su profesora y su madre sí. Unos buenos años después, tras acabar sus estudios en Educación Especial, agarró los lápi…
A Blanca Lacasa Carralón (Madrid, 1972) le chifla la ensaladilla rusa, pero detesta el huevo duro. Con esto estaría todo dicho. O casi. Como periodista, ha colaborado en numerosos medios escritos que …
Mónica Ojeda was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1988. She has published novels, short stories, and poems, earning her nominations and accolades in various literary contests. In 2017, she was listed in…
Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石), born Natsume Kinnosuke (夏目 金之助), was a Japanese novelist. He is best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a …
María Sánchez es veterinaria de campo. Actualmente trabaja con razas autóctonas en peligro de extinción, defendiendo otras formas de producción y de relación con la tierra como la agroecología, el pas…
Elisenda Solsona Margarit (Olesa de Montserrat, 1984) és escriptora i professora de secundària. És llicenciada en Humanitats i Comunicació Audiovisual. Té el Màster en Escriptura Cinematogràfica de la…
Henar Álvarez (Madrid, 1984) es una de las voces más visibles e interesantes de la comedia actual. Además de dirigir el pódcast El olimpo de las diosas, junto con Judith Tiral, presenta, con Manuel Bu…
Lana Corujo is an artist who works mainly in illustration and writing. She studied Illustration and Design at the School of Art in Madrid, and in the field of writing she has participated in the antho…
