Maria Pasqual i Alberich (Barcelona, 1 July 1933 - 13 December 2011) was a prolific and popular Spanish illustrator.
Maria Pascual Alberich began her career in the late 1940s, alternating editorials as Ameller (Los Mil y un cuentos, Princesita), Marte (Sam, Cuentos Mariposa) and Toray (Azucena, Cuentos de la Abuelita, Mis cuentos).
From 1955 Pascual Alberich worked almost exclusively for the publishing house Toray in both, previous collections and in new ones: Alice (1955), Graciela (1956), Lindaflor (1958), Rosas Blancas (1958), Guendalina (1959), Susan (1959), Serenade (1959) and Tales Diadema (1960). In Editorial Bruguera she published a couple of comics stories, “Sissi” (1957) and “Cuentos de Andersen” (1958), which are numbers 38 and 57 of the series Stories. [1]
Later, Pascual Alberich worked in Editorial Susaeta, using her reputation to present collections such as Las muñecas Pascual Maria and Muñecas recortables de María Pascual. However, her most important work, was done with Grupo Océano: Cuentos infantils, La Biblia infantil, Fábulas, Las Mil y una noches, Aprenda inglés con María Pascual, Aprendo matemáticas, Mi primer diccionario, El sexo contado a los pequeños, etc. among the most important, though they were not very well known as they were intended for South America and several European countries. Her personal works include more than 2,000 drawings, and are preserved in the Biblioteca de Catalunya.
Camilo José Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquess of Iria Flavia was a Spanish novelist, poet, story writer and essayist associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
Francisco Ibáñez Talavera was a Spanish comic book artist and writer.
Gloria Guardia was a Panamanian novelist, essayist and journalist whose works received recognition in Latin America, Europe, Australia and Japan. She was a Fellow at the Panamanian Academy of Letters and Associate Fellow at the Spanish Royal Academy, the Colombian and the Nicaraguan Academy of Letters
Renée Ferrer de Arréllaga is a contemporary Paraguayan poet and novelist. She is Secretary General of the Board of Governors of the twenty-member Academia Paraguaya de la Lengua Española. Her novel Los nudos del silencio has been translated into French, Italian, and English. On 16 December 2011, Ferrer was awarded Paraguay's National Prize for Literature by President Fernando Lugo. She is married with four children.
Amadeu Vives i Roig was a Spanish musical composer, creator of over a hundred stage works. He is best known for Doña Francisquita, which Christopher Webber has praised for its "easy lyricism, fluent orchestration and colourful evocation of 19th Century Madrid—not to mention its memorable vocal and choral writing", and characterizes as "without doubt the best known and loved of all his works, one of the few zarzuelas which has 'travelled' abroad".
Spanish comics are the comics of Spain. Comics in Spain are usually called historietas or cómics, with tebeos primarily denoting the magazines containing the medium. Tebeo is a phonetic adaptation of TBO, a long-running (1917–1983) Spanish comic magazine, and sounds like "te veo".
Manuel Vázquez Gallego, was a Spanish cartoonist. He was one of the most important artists of Editorial Bruguera.
José Sanchis Grau was a Spanish comic book writer. He also worked for Editorial Bruguera and Spanish children comics in general. He was the creator of strips like Pumby (1954) and Robín Robot (1972).
Patricia Esteban Erlés is a Spanish secondary school teacher, journalist for the Heraldo de Aragón and a short story writer. She studied Spanish language and literature at the University of Zaragoza. She has won a number of major awards and her work has been included in several anthologies. Her stories have been praised by literary critic Rachel Rees for their “biting wit”.
Elia Barceló or Elia Eisterer-Barceló is a Spanish academic and author who lives in Austria.
Francisco Darío Villanueva Prieto is a Spanish literary theorist and critic. He has been a member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 2007, and he occupies the chair corresponding to the letter D. Secretary of the Academy from December 2009, he was elected director in 2014, post he held until January 2019.
Carme Barbará Geniés, known professionally as Carmen Barbará, is a Spanish comics artist and illustrator. Her most famous character is the reporter Mary Noticias, who revolutionized the image of women in Spanish cartoons, breaking from their traditional romantic roles.
Ana María del Río is a Chilean literature professor, feminist writer, and novelist. Her honors include the Santiago Municipal Literature Award and the María Luisa Bombal Award.
Ediciones B is a Spanish publisher, which currently operates as a division of Penguin Random House. Ediciones B is headquartered in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain; with branches throughout Latin America. It was established in 1986, but has its origins in El Gato Negro (1910) and Editorial Bruguera (1940).
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.
Rosa Galcerán Vilanova was a Spanish cartoonist, advertising artist, and poet. She was a pioneer in her work as a comics artist, at a time when the profession was mostly male.
Editorial Molino was a publishing house created in Barcelona in 1933 at the initiative of Pablo del Molino Mateus (1900-1968), with the vision of creating a collection of novels accessible to the general public.