Authors

  • Elisenda Queralt

    Elisenda Queralt was born in Barcelona in 1971. She teaches English and has written several stories for children.

     

  • Élmer Mendoza

    Élmer Mendoza was born in Culiacán, Mexico, in 1949. He is a professor at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa. Mexican critics consider him "the first novelist to write a true account of the effects of drug trafficking in our country". He has been awarded the XVII José Fuentes Mares National Literary Prize, and he was a finalist in the Dashiel Hammet Prize in 2005. He has also won the III Tusquets Editores Prize for a novel in 2007 with 'Balas de plata' (Silver Bullets, 2008).

     

  • Elna Matamoros

    Ballet Mistress at the Ballet Nacional de España. A pupil of her mother, Carmina Ocaña, in Madrid and Wilhelm Burmann in New York, she gained a Master of Arts in Dance Education from the University of New York. A specialist in the methodology of the Bournonville technique and the teaching of different dance styles, she currently combines her teaching role with research, encouraging awareness of dance in various publications and by speaking at events.

     

  • Elsa Drucaroff

    A writer, essayist, researcher and teacher, Drucaroff has published the novels 'La patria de las mujeres' (1999) and 'Conspiración contra Güemes' (2002). She is also author of the essays "Mijail Bajtín, la guerra de las culturas" (1995) and "Roberto Arlt, profeta del miedo" (1998). She is currently a teacher and researcher at the Escuela Nacional de Profesorado Joaquín V. González and in the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts at the UBA. 'El infierno prometido: una prostituta de la Zwi Migdal' is her third novel.

  • Elsa Plaza

    Buenos Aires, 1950; she studied Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, Paris and Barcelona. She is a lecturer at Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. Her first novel "Rojiza penumbra" (Ruddy Gloom) was published in 2006.