Bahira AbdulatifW
Bahira Abdulatif

Bahira Abdulatif Yasin is an Iraqi writer, translator and professor living in Madrid.

Elisenda AlamanyW
Elisenda Alamany

Elisenda Alamany i Gutiérrez is a Spanish teacher and politician, currently serving as a member of the City Council of Barcelona. From January 2018 to April 2019 she was a deputy in the 12th Legislature of the Parliament of Catalonia. Initially part of the coalition Catalunya en Comú–Podem, she was the spokesperson for its parliamentary group from 18 January to 29 October 2018. In October 2018, she promoted the platform Sobiranistes (Sovereigntists) as a criticism of the leadership of En Comú Podem. In February 2019 she left the parliamentary group but kept her seat. On 24 February 2019, she announced the creation of the party Nova.

Leopoldo Alas MínguezW
Leopoldo Alas Mínguez

Leopoldo Alas Mínguez was a Spanish writer, poet and editor. He was the grand nephew of Leopoldo Alas "Clarin".

Fernando ArgentaW
Fernando Argenta

Fernando Martín de Argenta Pallarés was a Spanish writer, journalist, musician and presenter of radio and television.

Fernando ArrabalW
Fernando Arrabal

Fernando Arrabal Terán is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet. He was born in Melilla and settled in France in 1955. Regarding his nationality, Arrabal describes himself as "desterrado", or "half-expatriate, half-exiled".

Yolanda ArrietaW
Yolanda Arrieta

Yolanda Etxeberria Malaxetxeberria is a Basque writer. She completed her teaching studies in the school of teachers of Ezkoriatza, in the speciality of Basque Philosophy. After that, she studied theater at the Antzerti school and finally, she studied Cultural and Social Anthropology, at the Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences of San Sebastián. Her greatest activity has always been literature, mainly as a creative writer and also conducting literary workshops and fostering a taste for Literature and Reading.

Bernardo AtxagaW
Bernardo Atxaga

Bernardo Atxaga, pseudonym of Joseba Irazu Garmendia, is a Spanish Basque writer and self-translator.

Miguel Ángel Ayuso GuixotW
Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot

Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, MCCJ is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church and an historian of Islam. He has been an official of the Roman Curia since 2012 and an archbishop since 2016.

Abel AzconaW
Abel Azcona

Abel Azcona is a Spanish artist, specializing in performance art. His work includes installations, sculptures, and video art. He is known as the "enfant terrible" of Spanish Contemporary Art. His first works dealt with personal identity, violence and the limits of pain; his later works are of a more critical, political and social nature.

Maria BarbalW
Maria Barbal

Maria Barbal is a Catalan writer.

Alejandro Barrero SantiagoW
Alejandro Barrero Santiago

Alejandro Barrero Santiago is a Spanish writer, specialized in fantasy genre novels.

Bibiana Campos SeijoW
Bibiana Campos Seijo

Bibiana Campos Seijo is an editor, publisher, and media executive currently employed as the Editor-in-Chief of Chemical & Engineering News. She is also vice president of the C&EN Media Group. C&EN is published by the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society by membership.

Carles BoixW
Carles Boix

Carles Boix i Serra is a Catalan and American political scientist, currently teaching at Princeton University. He is a leading scholar in empirical democratic theory and comparative political economy.

Mariam BudiaW
Mariam Budia

Mariam Budia, Spanish writer, researcher and playwright.

Javier Cárdenas (presenter)W
Javier Cárdenas (presenter)

Francisco Javier Cárdenas Pérez is a Spanish singer and television and radio presenter.

Pepita CarpeñaW
Pepita Carpeña

Josefa Carpena-Amat, known by the pseudonym Pepita Carpeña, was a militant trade unionist, writer, and Spanish anarchist.

Ricardo de la CiervaW
Ricardo de la Cierva

Ricardo de la Cierva y Hoces was a Spanish historian and politician.

Rosa Cobo BedíaW
Rosa Cobo Bedía

Rosa Cobo Bedía is a Spanish feminist, writer, and professor of sociology of gender at the University of A Coruña. She is also the director of the Center for Gender Studies and Feminists at the same university. Her main line of research is feminist theory and the sociology of gender.

Ada ColauW
Ada Colau

Ada Colau Ballano is a Spanish activist and politician who is the current Mayor of Barcelona. On 13 June 2015 she was elected Mayor of Barcelona, the first woman to hold the office, as part of the citizen municipalist platform, Barcelona En Comú. Colau was one of the founding members and spokespeople of the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH), which was set up in Barcelona in 2009 in response to the rise in evictions caused by unpaid mortgage loans and the collapse of the Spanish property market in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

José Antonio CotrinaW
José Antonio Cotrina

José Antonio Cotrina is a Spanish writer, focused mainly on the fantasy, science fiction and horror genres. He is best known for his novels set in the Between the Lines Universe and for his trilogy, The Cycle of the Red Moon.

Mercedes DeambrosisW
Mercedes Deambrosis

Mercedes Deambrosis is a Spanish writer who writes in French; she arrived in France at the age of 12. Many of her novels are set in Spain.

Juan Eslava GalánW
Juan Eslava Galán

Juan Eslava Galán is a Spanish writer of historic genre, both fiction and non-fiction. He has published some of his works under the pen name Nicholas Wilcox.

Teresa EspasaW
Teresa Espasa

María Teresa Espasa Moltó is a Spanish Valencian poet, essayist and professor. She was born in Dénia, Marina Alta, Alicante) in the middle of the 20th century. She is known for her intense and animated literary and cultural style developed during the talk show "La Buhardilla" and through the magazine, Corondel.

Mercedes Fernández-MartorellW
Mercedes Fernández-Martorell

Mercedes Fernández-Martorell is a Spanish writer and famous anthropologist.

Paloma Gómez BorreroW
Paloma Gómez Borrero

María Paloma Gómez Borrero was a Spanish journalist and writer.

Vicente Alejandro GuillamónW
Vicente Alejandro Guillamón

Vicente Alejandro Guillamón was a Spanish journalist and writer.

Úrsula HeinzeW
Úrsula Heinze

Úrsula Heinze de Lorenzo is a writer and translator in Galician and German residing in Galicia. Her extensive literary works include poetry, novels, essays, short stories and children's literature. She moved from Germany to Galicia in 1968. She has worked for the Radio Galega Compañía de Radio Televisión de Galicia and El Correo Gallego and is a former President of the PEN club of Galicia.

Araceli Herrero FigueroaW
Araceli Herrero Figueroa

Araceli Herrero Figueroa was a Spanish writer.

Carla HerreroW
Carla Herrero

Carla Herrero Torellas, also known by the pseudonym Silay Alkma, is a Spanish writer, lecturer, and activist against school bullying. As of 2019, she works for the leadership consultancy WALK, an Oxford Leadership member.

Francisco Ibáñez TalaveraW
Francisco Ibáñez Talavera

Francisco Ibáñez Talavera is a Spanish comic book artist and writer.

Lorenzo MedianoW
Lorenzo Mediano

Lorenzo Mediano is a Spanish physician, writer and wilderness survival instructor. He is the author of several novels such as Los olvidados de Filipinas, La escarcha sobre los hombros, El Secreto de la Diosa and Tras la huella del hombre rojo.

José María MendiluceW
José María Mendiluce

José María Mendiluce Pereiro was a Spanish writer and politician. Born in Madrid, he attended Complutense University in his hometown.

Amarna MillerW
Amarna Miller

Amarna Miller is a Spanish YouTuber and former adult film actress, producer, director and writer.

Jesús MoncadaW
Jesús Moncada

Jesús Moncada i Estruga was a narrator and translator. His work is a re-creation, somewhere between realism and fantasy, of the mythical past of the old town of Mequinenza -now submerged beneath the waters of the river Ebro-.

María Victoria MorenoW
María Victoria Moreno

María Victoria Moreno Márquez was a Spanish writer and teacher. She was one of the pioneers of literature for children and young people in Galician. The Day of Galician Literature was devoted to her on 17 May 2018.

Julia NavarroW
Julia Navarro

Julia Navarro is a Spanish novelist and journalist. She is the daughter of Spanish journalist, Felipe Navarro "Yale". After writing books on current affairs and politics, she published her first novel The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud, which was on best-seller lists, both in Spain and abroad.

Carlo PadialW
Carlo Padial

Carlo Padial is a comics artist, writer, screenwriter and film director.

Pilar PallarésW
Pilar Pallarés

Pilar Pallarés García is a Galician poet. She won the National Poetry Award, a prize awarded annually by the Ministry of Culture of Spain, in 2019 for her book of poems Tempo fósil; English translation: Fossil Time.

Elisenda PaluzieW
Elisenda Paluzie

Elisenda Paluzie i Hernández is a Catalan economist, politician, and professor. Since March 24, 2018, she is president of the Assemblea Nacional Catalana, a Catalan independence organization. She has served as Professor of Economics at the University of Barcelona (UB) since 2001, is the director of the Centro de Análisis Económico y de las Políticas Sociales (CAEPS) of the UB, which is integrated into the Research Institute of the Barcelona Economic Analysis Team (BEAT).

Ana Pardo de VeraW
Ana Pardo de Vera

Ana Pardo de Vera Posada is a Spanish journalist. Since 2016 she has been the chief editor of the online newspaper Público.

Santiago PosteguilloW
Santiago Posteguillo

Santiago Posteguillo Gómez is a Spanish philologist, linguist and author, born in Valencia in 1967. He has become known for a number of novels set in Ancient Rome, especially his Scipio Africanus and Trajan trilogies.

Basilio Rodríguez CañadaW
Basilio Rodríguez Cañada

Basilio Rodríguez Cañada is a Spanish writer, editor, poet, professor, columnist, Africanist and cultural manager.

Ángel SalaW
Ángel Sala

Ángel Sala is the director of the Sitges Film Festival.

Fernando Sánchez DragóW
Fernando Sánchez Dragó

Fernando Sánchez Dragó is a Spanish writer and television host.

Carlos SemprúnW
Carlos Semprún

Carlos Semprún Maura was a Spanish writer, playwright and journalist, mainly working in the French language.

Jorge SemprúnW
Jorge Semprún

Jorge Semprún Maura was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain, but was expelled from the party in 1964. After the death of Franco and change to a democratic government, he served as Minister of Culture in Spain's socialist government from 1988 to 1991. He was a screenwriter for two successive films by the Greek director Costa-Gavras, Z (1969) and The Confession (1970), which dealt with the theme of persecution by governments. For his work on the films The War Is Over (1966) and Z (1969) Semprún was nominated for the Academy Award. In 1996, he became the first non-French author elected to the Académie Goncourt, which awards an annual literary prize.

Carme Solé VendrellW
Carme Solé Vendrell

Carme Solé Vendrell is an award-winning Spanish illustrator and writer, mainly of children's books. Since 1968, she has illustrated more than a hundred books. She has also worked on television series such as Víctor y María. She was a Premi Nacional de Cultura laureate in 1979 and 2012.

Ramon Solsona i SanchoW
Ramon Solsona i Sancho

Ramon Solsona i Sancho is a Catalan writer and publicist. He has a degree in Romance Philology and he is also a high school teacher on leave. Notable for his ironic style and numerous collaborations with print media and radio, he is a currently collaborator of a radio program.

Javier TomeoW
Javier Tomeo

Javier Tomeo was a Spanish (Aragonese) essayist, dramatist, and novelist.

Brigitte VasalloW
Brigitte Vasallo

Brigitte Vasallo is a Spanish writer and antiracist, feminist and LGBTI activist, specially known for her critique of gendered islamophobia, purplewashing and homonationalism, as well as for the defence of polyamory in affective relationships.

Alberto Vázquez-FigueroaW
Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa

Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa is a Spanish novelist, inventor and industrialist. His novels have sold over 25 million copies worldwide. He is the owner of A.V.F.S.L, a desalinization company that uses a method of desalinization by pressure, invented by himself.

José Miguel Vilar-BouW
José Miguel Vilar-Bou

José Miguel Vilar-Bou is a contemporary Spanish novelist, short story writer, and journalist, specializing in horror fiction, science-fiction and fantasy. His work has been awarded with several prizes in literary competitions. His novel Alarido de Dios [The Cry of God] was a finalist for the Awards Celsius 2010 and his short story "El laberinto de la araña" ["The Spider's Labyrinth"] received in the same year the Nocte Award for the best Spanish horror story. In the Spanish Historia natural de los cuentos de miedo [Natural History of the Weird Tales], because of the "expeditious and accurate in its proposal", critic José L. Fernández Arellano mentioned this author's story "La luz encendida" as leading among the young writers' of the genre of horror in Spain.

Darío VillanuevaW
Darío Villanueva

Francisco Darío Villanueva Prieto is a Spanish literary theorist and critic, and is the director of the Royal Spanish Academy as of 11 December 2014. He has been a member of the academy since 2007, and he occupies the chair corresponding to the letter D.

Nélida ZaitegiW
Nélida Zaitegi

Nélida Zaitegi de Miguel is a Spanish teacher and pedagogue. Her work focuses on promoting the construction of positive coexistence in educational institutions, as well as the prevention and action in cases of bullying among peers.