Cristina López Barrio (Madrid, 1970) estudió Derecho en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y se ha especializado en propiedad intelectual. Asimismo, se ha formado en el Taller Literario de Clara Obligado y su primera novela, 'El hombre que se mareaba con la rotación de la Tierra', fue un libro juvenil con el que ganó el II Premio Villa de Pozuelo de Alarcón de Novela Juvenil, de la editorial Everest (2009).

Susana Fortes (Pontevedra, Spain, 1959) graduated in Geography and History at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, and in American History from the Universidad de Barcelona. She has recently spent time in the USA, combining teaching Spanish in Louisiana and participating in university conferences at the Universidad Interestatal de San Francisco. She currently teaches at a secondary school in Valencia. With her first novel, Querido Corto Maltés (Dear Corto Maltés), she won the 1994 Premio Nuevos Narradores. In 2001 she was shortlisted in the Premio Primavera awarded by Espasa for her novel, Fronteras de arena (Borders of Sand). She has also published Las cenizas de la Bounty (Ashes of the Bounty; Espasa, 1998), Tiernos y traidores (Tender Traitors; Seix Barral, 1999) and the screenplay Adiós, muñeca (Ciao, Doll; Espasa, 2002). With her novel El amante albanés (The Albanian Affairs) she was short-listed for the Premio Planeta 2003. Her novels have been translated into English, Dutch, French, Norwegian, Greek, German, Italian, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Chinese (Simplified and Complex) Polish, Hungarian, Croatian, Turkish, Hebrew, Russian and Korean. Susana is a regular contributor to the newspaper El País, as well as various cinema and literature magazines. Her novel El azar de Laura Ulloa (The Fate of Laura Ulloa), Planeta 2006, won the Premio de la Crítica and has been translated into several languages. Quattroccento (Planeta, October 2007) and her last novel Waiting for Robert Capa (Planeta, 2009), winner of the Premio Fernando Lara 2009, have been translated into 12 languages and are best-seller in many countries. Film rights of Waiting for Robert Capa have been sold to Forward Pass (Michael Mann's production company) and Columbia Pictures. The screenplay is written by Jez Butterworth.

Autora española, Luz Gabás estudió Filología Inglesa en la Universidad de Zaragoza, donde también ha impartido clases. A lo largo de su carrera ha trabajado también como traductora y ha colaborado en numerosas campañas de fomento de la cultura. Además, Gabás también se ha interesado por el mundo de la política, llegando a ocupar la alcaldía de Benasque. En lo literario, Gabás logró un gran éxito en 2012 con la publicación de su primera novela, Palmeras en la nieve, una de las primeras en explotar la historia colonial española en la Guinea Española, al estar ambientada en la isla de Fernando Poo. Palmeras en la nieve ha sido traducida a varios idiomas y en 2014 fue adaptada en formato de serie televisiva. En 2014, Gabás publicó su segunda novela, Regreso a tu piel, en la que volvió a adentrarse en el género histórico, pero esta vez trasladándose al Pirineo Aragonés en pleno siglo XVI.

Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez, is a Spanish novelist and ex-journalist. He worked as a war reporter for twenty-one years (1973 - 1994). He started his journalistic career writing for the now-defunct newspaper Pueblo. Then, he jumped to news reporter for TVE, Spanish national channel. As a war journalist he traveled to several countries, covering many conflicts. He put this experience into his book 'Territorio Comanche', focusing on the years of Bosnian massacres. That was in 1994, but his debut as a fiction writer started in 1983, with 'El húsar', a historical novella inspired in the Napoleonic era. Although his debut was not quite successful, in 1988, with 'The Fencing Master', he put his name as a serious writer of historic novels. That was confirmed in 1996, when was published the first book of his Captain Alatriste saga, which has been his trademark. After this book, he could leave definitely journalism for focusing on his career as a fiction writer. This saga, that happens in the years of the Spanish golden age, has seen, for now, seven volumes, where Pérez-Reverte shows, from his particular point of view, historical events from Spanish history in the 16th century. Apart from these, he also penned another successful works like Dumas Club and Flanders Panel, titles that, among others, made Pérez-Reverte one of the most famous and bestseller authors of Spanish fiction of our era.

Autor español, Emilio Luis Lara López (Jaén, 1968) cursó estudios de Antropología, campo en el que se doctoró, siendo además licenciado en Humanidades. Lara ha trabajado en los últimos años como profesor en un centro de enseñanza secundaria, actividad que combina tanto con su trabajo académico -publicando numerosos artículos en revistas especializadas- como con la escritura. Además, Lara ha sido uno de los colaboradores del Diccionario Biográfico presentado por la Real Academia de la Historia. En lo literario, Lara dio el salto a la novela en el año 2016 gracias a La cofradía de la Armada Invencible, libro donde relata una de las campañas militares más famosas de la historia de España.

Juan Gómez-Jurado (December 1977 Madrid, Spain) is an award winning journalist and bestselling author. He is one of the three most successful contemporary Spanish authors along with New York Times bestselling authors Javier Sierra and Carlos Ruiz Zafón. In 2016, Juan celebrated the mark of 6 million readers worldwide. Juan is the author of nine international bestselling novels: GOD’S SPY, THE MOSES EXPEDITION, THE TRAITOR'S EMBLEM, THE LEGEND OF THE THIEF, SCAR, RED QUEEN, BLACK WOLF and WHITE KING. They have been translated into more than 40 languages. He is also the author of the young adult science-fiction series, ALEX COLT SPACE CADET. Juan is an avid reader and traveller. He lives in Spain with Sam, his bad behaviored dog.

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