AUTHORS

Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa, writer, journalist, filmmaker, inventor and adventurer. Author of more than one hundred internationally successful titles. He is one of the most widely read contemporary authors in Spain and in the world with more than 30 million books sold. He was a scuba diving teacher on the Cruz del Sur school ship along Jacques Cousteau, he worked as a correspondent for Destino, La Vanguardia and Televisión Española covering wars and revolutions in countries such as Congo, Guinea, the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Guatemala......

DAVID DE JUAN MARCOS (Salamanca, 1980), ha recibido numerosos reconocimientos dentro de la narrativa breve. Su primera novela, El baile de las lagartijas, le sirvió para obtener la beca de la Fundación Antonio Gala para Jóvenes Creadores y fue galardonada con el XXVII Premio Internacional de Novela Ciudad de Valencia Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, y se convirtió pronto en un éxito de público y crítica....

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)....

Fernando Jiménez del Oso (1941-2005) was a pioneer, one of the first in Spain who dealt with the paranormal and its mysteries. The television show that he hosted was the very first to adreess those subjects. He bécame quite popular along the second half of the seventies and the eighties, always hosting shows related with the paranormal phenomena as «Todo es posible en domingo», «Más allá» (as director and host), «La puerta del misterio» (also as director and host) and «Punto de encuentro»....

Francisco Narla (Spain, 1978) is a writer and airline captain. In spite of his youth, he has already established an extensive literary career, and dared to try out many different genres. He has published novels, stories, poetry, essays and practical books, the latter being closely linked to his profession, but also his interests. A man with many facets, Francisco Narla is also a public speaker. He has spoken in various forums such as universities and radio and television programs....

Javier Pellicer (Benigánim, Valencia; 1978), started his literary career through short stories, and those granted him different awards as the first Premio Cryptshow Festival de Relato Fantástico 2008. He has collaborated with many anthologies: Fantasmagoria, Ilusionaria 2 or Crónicas de la Marca del Este. His first novel, El espíritu del lince. Iberia contra Cartago (Pàmies), was well received by public and took him to he final selection of the award IV Premios de Literatura Histórica Hislibris....

José Antonio Fideu Martínez (Spain), is a novelist and comic script writer. Graduated to become school teacher now he shares his teaching vocation with his great passion: story telling. After publishing his first comic script (“Núbilus”, 2009) the homonym novel appears....

José de Cora, writer and journalist; Lugo, 1951. He has developed his work in every media: news agencies, journal, magazines, radio, cinema, television. His sense of humour, reflected on his articles, granted him the award La Codorniz de Plata in the year 2000. Since 1976 he has written a multitude of essays, either spanish and galician, most of it of historical background, as “Ideologías para un rey” (Aguaribay) o “Manual del Perfecto Político” (Espasa Calpe)....

Laura Falcó Lara (1969, Barcelona). After studying English philology and business managing she started to work for Grupo Planeta in 1995. On the well known publishing company she has led different marketing and managing departments including those of some of the publishing partners of Grupo Planeta as Martínez Roca, Minotauro, Timun Mas, Libros Cúpula, Esencia y Zenith. Today she runs Libros Cúpula, Planeta Gifts and the Conference Office....

Lorenzo de Medici, is a direct descendant of the Medici family, one of the most important in history, whose patronage fostered the creation of the greatest works of the Renaissance, was born in Milan (Italy) and spent his childhood in Switzerland. He has lived in the United States and several European countries, currently residing in Portugal. He speaks six languages. He is the author of several historical works, among which: "The Medici, our history". Lorenzo has also written guidebooks: "Florence and Tuscany " and "Golf Courses"....