Guadalupe Nettel (born 1973) is a Mexican writer. She was born in Mexico City and obtained a PhD in linguistics from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She has published in several genres, both fiction and non-fiction. Nettel is a prolific author and a regular contributor to both Spanish- and French-language magazines, including Letras Libres, Hoja por hoja, L'atelier du roman, and L'inconvénient. In 2006 she was voted one of thirty-nine most important Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine at the Bogotá Hay Festival. She has lived in Montreal and Paris, and is now based in Barcelona, where she works as a translator and holds writing seminars and a workshop on Potential Literature (based on the French Oulipo). She is the author of Juegos de artificio [False Games], Les jours fossiles [Fossil Days], Pétalos y otras historias incómodas [Petals and other Awkward Stories], and El huésped [The Host], and the recipient of the Premio Herralde, third place, for El huésped, and the 2008 Premio Antonin Artaud and the 2007 Gilbert Owen Short Story Prize in Mexico for Pétalos. Guadalupe Nettel’s stories have been described as “marvellous” by the distinguished Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vázquez, and the critic Juan Ignacio Boido has praised Nettel’s creation of “a universe where Roberto Bolaño’s visceral poets rub shoulders with the fragile but unbreakable women of Haruki Murakami.”

Carmen Boullosa (b. September 4, 1954 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a leading Mexican poet, novelist and playwright. Her work is eclectic and difficult to categorize, but it generally focuses on the issues of feminism and gender roles within a Latin American context. Her work has been praised by a number of prominent writers, including Carlos Fuentes, Alma Guillermoprieto and Elena Poniatowska, as well as publications such as Publishers Weekly. She has won a number of awards for her works, and has taught at universities such as Georgetown University, Columbia University and New York University (NYU), as well as at universities in nearly a dozen other countries. She is currently Distinguished Lecturer at the City College of New York. She has two children—Maria Aura and Juan Aura—with her former partner, Alejandro Aura—and is now married to Mike Wallace, the Pulitzer Prize–winning co-author of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. (from Wikipedia)

Pino Cacucci (Alessandria, 1955) è uno scrittore, sceneggiatore e traduttore italiano. Cresciuto a Chiavari, si è trasferito a Bologna nel 1975 per frequentare il DAMS. All'inizio degli anni ottanta è vissuto per lunghi periodi sia a Parigi che a Barcellona. In seguito viaggia molto in America latina e soprattutto in Messico dove ha abitato per lunghi periodi. Ha pubblicato finora numerosi libri di narrativa e saggistica. Pone in risalto personaggi storici non vincitori, sommersi e nascosti dalla Storia ufficiale. Come posto in evidenza dallo stesso Autore nell´Opera "In ogni caso nessun rimorso”, la Storia viene scritta sempre dai vincitori ed i suoi protagonisti perdono, come conseguenza delle loro azioni tutto: battaglie, lavoro, amici, ideali, la loro stessa vita, tranne la dignità, ma con l'aggiuntiva sfortuna di vivere in un'epoca in cui la dignità stessa era l'ultima delle qualità necessarie per passare alla Storia. Particolarmente intensa è anche la sua attività come traduttore.