Jorge Ordaz Gargallo (born 1946) is a Spanish writer and geologist. Born in Barcelona, he lived and taught for many years at the University of Oviedo. As a fiction writer, he is best known for his novels Prima Donna, which was nominated for the Premio Herralde, and La perla del Oriente, nominated for the Premio Nadal. [1]
Jordi Mollà i Perales is a Spanish actor, artist, writer, and filmmaker. He has been nominated three times for the Goya Award for Best Actor for The Lucky Star (1997), Second Skin (1999), and El cónsul de Sodoma (1999).
Eduardo Kuno Becker Paz professionally known as Kuno Becker, is a Mexican actor and film director who has worked in telenovelas, Mexican cinema, and U.S. cinema. He is best known for his portrayal of Ruben Berrizabal in Soñadoras, and Santiago Muñez in the football film Goal! and its sequels and The Lightning McQueen into Latin Spanish in Cars, Cars 2 and Cars 3.
Pilar López de Ayala Arroyo is a Spanish actress. She won a Goya Award for Best Actress for her performance playing Joanna of Castile in 2001 film Mad Love.
María del Pilar Cuesta Acosta, known professionally as Ana Belén, is a Spanish actress and singer.
Fabrizio Bentivoglio is an Italian cinema and theatre actor and screenwriter.
Leonor Elizabeth Ceballos Watling is a Spanish film actress and singer.
Miguel Torga, pseudonym of Adolfo Correia da Rocha, is considered one of the greatest Portuguese writers of the 20th century. He wrote poetry, short stories, a genre in which he is accounted a master, theater and a 16 volume diary, written from 1932 to 1993.
Luís Lázaro Sacramento Ramos is a prolific Brazilian actor, television presenter, director, writer, and voice actor. He started his acting career with the Flock of Olodum Theater group, in Salvador, and is best known for his portrayal of João Francisco dos Santos in the 2002 film Madame Satã. Ramos is married to Brazilian actress Taís Araújo. In 2007, he was nominated for the 35th International Emmy Awards for Best Actor for his role in Cobras & Lagartos.
Michele Prisco was an Italian journalist, critic, and novelist.
Roberto Fernández Sastre is an Uruguayan writer, critic and musician. Born in Montevideo, he moved permanently to Barcelona in 1981. His novel La manipulacion was nominated for the Premio Herralde in 1986; he was also nominated the following year for El turismo infame.
Julio César Álvarez Montelongo, better known as Julión Álvarez, is a Mexican singer. Álvarez has been nominated for a Grammy Award and two Latin Grammy Awards.
Ismael Grasa is a Spanish writer. He was born in Huesca, and studied philosophy in Pamplona and Madrid. He has published in a variety of genres, spanning both fiction and non-fiction. He spent some time teaching Spanish in China, which became the basis for his novel Días en China. He has also appeared as an actor in several films by David Trueba.
Marta Sanz Pastor is a Spanish writer. Her work includes the novels Susana y los viejos, Daniela Astor y la caja negra, Los mejores tiempos. and most recently Farandula which won the 2015 Premio Herralde. She is also a noted poet; among her notable works is the award-winning collection Vintage.
Marcello Fois is an Italian writer. He was born in Nuoro in Sardinia and studied at the University of Bologna. His first novel Ferro Recente was published in 1989. A prolific author, he has also written scripts for radio, TV, film and theatre. He has won numerous prizes, including:
Angelo Cannavacciuolo is an Italian writer and director.
Rodrigo Sorogoyen del Amo is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He won the Goya Award for Best Director and the Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Realm. He was previously nominated for the Goya Award for Best New Director for Stockholm, and the Goya Award for Best Director and the Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay for May God Save Us. For the short film Mother, Sorogoyen won the Goya Award for Best Fictional Short Film and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. He often works in tandem with Isabel Peña.
Marco Balzano is an Italian writer. He was born in Milan, where he now works as a teacher of literature in a high school.
Michel Gaztambide is a French-born screenwriter based in the Basque Country, Spain. He is a recurring collaborator of Enrique Urbizu.