Eduardo Martínez Abarca

Born in Cadiz, Eduardo Martínez Abarcafound ended up at college in Madrid.He enrolled at the Polytechnic only to discover (belatedly) that he was no engineer. He also discovered the theatre, and this changed his direction. With the group Ishtar, he took part in their stagings of various theatrical works for children and adults. Along with some friends from the Polytechnic, he formed the Tela-Katola company which performed in many different settings over a number of years. With this company, he sampled the world of cafe-theatre, monologues, songs... They always had fun and almost always entertained their audiences. They wrote their own scripts and took songs from a variety of sources. Finally, he made the leap, and decided that he could write something for the imagination rather than for performance. And that was how his first novel 'Andrea and the masticators' came into being.