Escritor, periodista y codirector del festival Montevideo Comics. Cuando tenía ocho años intenté hacer una lista con todas las palabras que conocía. Por más que probé una y otra vez, no lograba escrib…
Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) was born in Rasht (Iran, 22nd November 1969 - Paris, june 4th, 2026). Conditioned by the extremism of the 1979 Revolution, her parents sent her to Vienna in 19…
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considere…
Joe Sacco was born in Malta on October 2, 1960. At the age of one, he moved with his family to Australia, where he spent his childhood until 1972, when they moved to Los Angeles. He began his journali…
Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5 1898; died near Granada, August 19 1936, García Lorca is one of Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poets and dramatists. His murder by t…
Óscar Martínez writes for ElFaro.net, the first online newspaper in Latin America. The original edition of his book Los migrantes que no importan was published in 2010 by Icaria and El Faro, with a se…
Nicolas Barral est né le 22 décembre 1966 à Paris. Après un Baccalauréat (philosophie et maths), il étudie pendant un an les arts plastiques puis intègre l'école d'Angoulême où il étudie sous la houle…
Riad Sattouf est l’auteur de nombreuses bandes dessinées, parmi lesquelles Retour au collège, Pascal Brutal (Fauve d’or 2010) ou La vie secrète des jeunes. Les beaux gosses, César du meilleur premier …
Paco Roca estudió en la Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño de Valencia. Aunque su trabajo se centra en los cómics, compagina su tiempo con la ilustración y las charlas y talleres.
José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony…
Kate Beaton was born in Nova Scotia, took a history degree in New Brunswick, paid it off in Alberta, worked in a museum in British Columbia, then came to Ontario for a while to draw pictures, then Hal…
Hugo Gonçalves (1976) é autor de vários romances. Na Companhia das Letras, estão publicados "O império do fim", "Filho do pai", "Revolução" (vencedor do Prémio Fernando Namora e semifinalista do Prémi…
Helena Magalhães nasceu em 1985 em Lisboa e tem-se dedicado ao jornalismo e à escrita. Começou pela imprensa feminina, passou para o digital e encontrou o seu lugar na literatura. Em 2017 lançou o seu…
Maria Francisca Gama nasceu em Leiria em 1997. Aos 17 anos, mudou-se para Lisboa e formou-se em Direito, pela Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa. Trabalhou num escritório de advogados e, mai…
Beatriz Lema Rivera (1985), known as Bea Lema, is a Spanish cartoonist and illustrator, winner of the 2024 Spanish National Comic Award. Her works have been published in both Spanish and French.
Aida González Rossi (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1995) estudió Periodismo y el Máster en Estudios de Género y Políticas de Igualdad en la Universidad de La Laguna. Ha publicado poemas en revistas, webs y …
Candela Sierra (Ronda, 1990) es licenciada en Bellas Artes por la Universidad de Granada y cursó un máster especializado en cómic en Angoulême (Francia). Disfrutó de una residencia en la Maison des Au…
