Sergio Ramírez Mercado is a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who served in the leftist Government Junta of National Reconstruction and as Vice President of the country 1985-1990 under the presidency of Daniel Ortega.
Jorge Lanata is an Argentine journalist and writer, born in Mar del Plata in 1960. He founded the leftist Argentine newspaper Pagina 12 in 1987 and co-founded the daily newspaper Crítica de la Argentina on March 2, 2008, and was its director until April 4, 2009. His grandfather was Agustín Lanata, a well known footballer of the second decade of the 20th century.
José María Merino is a Spanish novelist born in A Coruña, Galicia on 5 March 1941. He is the father of two daughters, María and Ana, both of them university professors. He lived for several years in León and currently lives in Madrid. Best known for his novels and short stories, he is also a poet and a travel writer.
Carme Riera Guilera is a novelist and essayist. She has also written short stories, scripts for radio and television and literary criticism. She holds a doctorate in Hispanic Philology and is a professor of Spanish literature at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Juan Jacinto Muñoz Rengel is a Spanish writer. He is well known in his native country for his short stories, and has won many awards. He is also known for his novels, including El asesino hipocondríaco and El gran imaginador .
Sergio Olguín is an Argentinean author, journalist and literary critic born on 29 January 1967 in Buenos Aires. Whereas most of the novels that he has published to date can be categorised as youth literature, he has also published stories and novels that do not fall in this category.
Leonardo Garet is a Uruguayan writer teacher, and member of the National Academy of Uruguay.
Juan José Plans Martínez was a Spanish writer, journalist, and radio and television announcer. He specialized as a writer in fantasy, horror, and science fiction, and published several collections of short stories and several radio and TV adaptations of classics in these genres. He was the author of nearly forty books and is on over thirty national and international anthologies, which have been translated into Portuguese, Polish, French, Russian and English.
Patricia Esteban Erlés is a Spanish philologist and short story writer. She has won major awards and has been included in several anthologies.
David Roas is a Spanish writer and literary critic, specialising in fantastic literature. He is currently professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he heads up the Fantastic Literature Studies Group.
Aixa de la Cruz is a Spanish writer of Basque origin. She is the author of the novels Cuando fuimos los mejores and De música ligera, both of which were shortlisted for the Premio Euskadi de Literatura. Cruz has also published a book of short stories titled Modelos Animales and contributed to various fiction anthologies, including Última temporada, Bajo treinta and Best European Fiction 2015, which reprinted her story "True Milk."
Cristina Fernández Cubas is a Spanish writer and journalist. She has been described as "one of the most important writers who have begun to publish since the end of the Franco dictatorship" and has been credited with inaugurating "a renaissance in the short story genre in Spain."
Hebe Uhart was an Argentine writer. In 2017, she received the Manuel Rojas Ibero-American Narrative Award.
Clara Obligado Marcó del Pont is an Argentine-Spanish writer.
Pilar Pedraza Martínez is a Spanish professor and writer. Her work has two main aspects: horror narrative and essay.
The Tigre Juan Award is a Spanish literary award created in 1977 in honor of the novel Tigre Juan. El curandero de su honra by Ramón Pérez de Ayala. It is awarded to the best narrative work in Spanish published in the preceding year. It has had different sponsors: the founders, the Cervantes Bookstore, the Asturian Center, the City Council of Oviedo (1986–2009) and the Tribuna Ciudadana cultural association.
Cristina Jurado Marcos is a Spanish writer and publisher of fantasy and science fiction, the winner of three Ignotus Awards. She has written two novels, several short stories, and edited multiple anthologies, as well as numerous articles and interviews in the magazine Supersonic, which she also directs.
Nuria Calderón García-Botey, known professionally as Nuria C. Botey, is a Spanish fantasy, science fiction, and horror writer.
Carlos Gardini was an Argentine translator and science fiction and fantasy writer. During his lifetime, he was one of the most productive and well known Argentine writers within the science fiction genre.
