Ulises Bértolo

(Spain, 1967)

He is a lawyer, academic, law professor and writer. He has been awarded the Gold Medal of the International Institute of Applied Criminalistics, the Medal of the Historical Associa-tion of the Civil Guard and the Grand Cross of the Benevolent, Civic and Humanitarian Services awarded by the Association for the Promotion of Benevolent Services of France. He is co-author of Crónica de un peregrino singular, and has published three novels very well received by critics and the public: La sustancia invisible de los cielos, Orthodoxia and La Dama del Norte, the latter won him the Lloret Negre Literature Award for the best crime novel published in Spanish in 2023. Exitus, it's his latest work.

Marta Estévez

(Spain, 1972) 

She has a degree in English philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela.
She was a finalist of the Azorín Prize for Best Novel, 2019 (unpublished work) and 4th finalist of the Planeta Prize, 2021 (unpublished work). 
Her published works to date are: El secreto de las hermanas Asorey (2023, Plaza & Janés, Penguin Random House) and La tercera orilla (2024, Plaza & Janés, Penguin Random House).
Her work is characterized by delving into the human condition and exploring new forms of expression.

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Arantza Portabales

(Spain, 1973)

I was lucky enough to be born twice. One in San Sebastian, in 1973. The second, forty years later, in Galicia, when I decided that I needed to write stories, because telling our life is the best way to understand it.
Since then I have published two books of short stories and six novels in the Galician language and in Spanish. I have been translated into Italian, Hebrew, German, Russian, Czech and Portuguese. I have seen how one of my novels was adapted to the theater and I am already working on its transition to audiovisual.
More than a hundred thousand people have read my books and despite that, I keep intact the ability to be amazed by it, the desire to tell stories and for readers to discover them.
I was a civil servant in the Galician government's Treasury, but now I've had to choose between counting money or telling stories. So Arantza the writer won.
Although if I think about it, there are still two Arantzas: the one who lives to write and the one who writes while she lives.

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