The thing that Matilde Portalés likes to do is to paint life with magic and smiles, and that is what these illustrations offer us.
Maurici Pla is an architect, writer and translator from French, English and Italian. He regularly combines his academic work with writing.
In 1997 Quaderns Crema published 'A favor del suspens', in 1999 his first novel 'Dissabte a les fosques', and in 2003, the literary essay 'Sobre la imaginació analógica: Lautremont, Breton, Roussel.'
'L'alquímia del mercat d'alquímies' is his second novel.
Mauricio Rosencof, born in Florida, Uruguay in 1933, is a writer and journalist. A leader of the Movement for National Liberation (the Tupamaros), he was arrested in 1972 and kept as a hostage in solitary confinement for eleven years, six months and a few days from September 1973.
Graduated in Illustration from the Escola d’Arts Aplicades Pau Gargallo in 1993. She has worked on books for children and young readers, as well as textbooks, for major Spanish publishers such as: Santillana, Anaya, La Galera, La Magrana, Casals, Edebé, Bruño.
She has also been able to experiment in press illustration, packaging and theatre sets. She is part of the teaching team at Escola de la Dona and Escola Eina, both in Barcelona.