Vicente Valero was born on the Spanish island of Ibiza in 1963 and first became well-known in his homeland as a poet. Since 1987, he has published seven volumes of poetry as well as several illustrated editions in cooperation with artists such as Vicente Fernández Cervera, Pedro Asensio and José
Tomás Segovia was born in 1927 in Valencia. Very early in his life, during the Spanish Civil War, he emigrated to France and Morocco. Segovia has kept up the contacts he established here, especially with French culture and language. In 1940 he chose exile in Mexico. In Mexico-City he studied
born in 1964 in Berlin, wrote her doctoral thesis on contemporary Latin American and German authors. Was a visiting lecturer at Tübingen and Bogotá. Has translated the works of García Lorca, Rulfo, Vargas Llosa, Marías, Cervantes, and others, since 1992. Is the recipient of the Spanish Embassy Translation Prize (2005),
The Columbian author and journalist Sergio Álvarez was born in 1965 in Bogotá. He studied philosophy, lived for several years in Colombia’s Orinoco lowlands, the Llanos Orientales, then worked in the advertising, television and cinema industry and eventually began to write. In 2000 Álvarez published »Mapaná«, a book for adolescents
Saskia von Hoegen studied Romance languages and international law in Bonn and Madrid and earned a doctorate in Hispanic languages and literatures. She worked for several years in Madrid for the Spanish publishing house »punto de lectura«, managed the contracts and licenses of the publishing house and was responsible for
Sara Mesa was born in Madrid in 1976 and moved with her parents to Seville as a child. She studied Journalism and Spanish Philology. The author is considered one of the most exciting voices of a still young generation of Spanish authors and can already look back on an extensive
is a philosopher, activist and translator who lives in Madrid. Since 1991 he has been collaborating with the post-operaist research and political networks, and has edited a number of works by Antonio Negri, Félix Guattari and others. Since 2000 he has been promoting new autonomous educational and political projects: Universidad
Ramón Trigo was born in 1965 in Vigo, Galicia. Already in school he was enthusiastic about drawing, passionately decorating his textbooks. At 18 years of age the self-taught artist published his first pictures in newspapers, and a short time later he made his debut in children’s book illustration. Since then
Rafael Chirbes was born in Tabernes de Valldigna, near Valencia, Spain, in 1949. Early on in his life he was drawn to big cities like Salamanca, Madrid, and Barcelona. After finishing his studies in modern history in Madrid, he wrote literature and film reviews, as well as reportage for various
Quim Monzó was born in Barcelona in 1952 and still lives there today. His jobs have included working as a graphic designer, comic book illustrator, scriptwriter, translator, songwriter and war correspondent. Monzó has published four novels, six short story collections and essays and he has been awarded the National Prize
Pius Alibek was born 1955 in Ankawa in Kurdish Iraq into a Chaldean-Assyrian family and studied English in a Jesuit seminar in Bagdad. After completing his military service he went to Barcelona. He speaks Aramaic, Arabic, Kurdish, English and Spanish as well as Catalan, which he uses for his literary
Pilar Velasco Acedo was born in Madrid, where she later studied journalism. She has been working for Cadena SER, the oldest Spanish national radio station, since 2006. She writes for various digital publications. Pilar Velasco also wrote political reports for Interviú magazine and worked for various TV stations. She attended
