Isidro Ferrer is the youngest of a family of 20 children. He had to fight mice for a hunk of cheese to eat. In the end he grew tired of only eating cheese and left home. Then he stowed away on a boat and travelled several times around the world. He used all the wood from the boat to make his sculptures, which grew ever bigger and lovelier, until there was no boat left to carry on and then he had an exhibition. Belén Barber, aged 7.
Ismael Díaz Yubero: twice winner of Spain’s National Gastronomy Prize and a member of the Spanish Gastronomy Academy, the Spanish Nutrition Foundation, the Spanish Foundation of Dairy Studies, and of the Cava Guild. Author of "Sabores de España" and "Las raíces del aceite de oliva".
Ismael Saz. Valencia, 1952. Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Valencia. He was awarded a scholarship at the Spanish School of History and Archaeology) and was visiting professor at the University of London. He has published many works on international relations, fascism and the Franco period in Spanish and foreign scientific reviews. Mussolini contra la II República and España contra España are some of his books.
Itsaso Lozano Madariaga , a devout lover of English literature, Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters, has unsurprisingly set her novel in the English countryside and the Loire Valley, landscapes that fuel the imagination of XIXth century literature. With sharp prose and astonishing narrative force, La vida privada de los Seymour shows us a storyteller of the highest calibre who knows how to reach out to her readers. Itsaso Lozano Madariaga is a charming, intelligent and very well-read young woman and a passionate reader.
Iván García Campos (!974-, A Coruña) won the 2008 Rodríguez Figueiredo national short fiction prize, established by the Fundación Pedrón de Ouro, for his work 'Unha casa chea de xanelas'. For this, his first novel, he was awarded the Blanco Amor prize.