AUTHORS

Emilio Aragón Bermúdez, Miliki (1929-2012)

Emilio Aragón Bermúdez, singer, film-maker, writer… In one word, artist. Descendant of the Swedish royal house and inheritor of a long dynasty of clowns, he receives a cosmopolitan education full of travels and suffering from the horrors involved with the Spanish Civil War, the Cuban Revolution and its consequence, emigration and exile to the United States (where he went on tour with the legendary Buster Keaton, he also took part of “The Ed Sullivan Show”, shared stage with Harpo Marx and worked for Richard Nixon and the vicepresidente Hubert Humphrey). Pioneer of the television world, at his eighties Miliki has being a part of us for generations, we’ve been his pupils, almost grandsons; his is the author of the famous song Feliz, feliz en tu día. As a man of letters he has published short stories dedicated to the most young public, in 1996 his own biography, Recuerdos (Ediciones B), and in 2008 his first novel, La providencia (Espasa). After eighty two years full of creativity he still had one last stand: Mientras duermen los murciélagos (Editorial Planeta). 30 cuentos y medio (Editorial Odeón) is his posthumous work.