Jaime Corpas likes books, travels and the cinema, but his greatest passion is languages. He was born in Pedrola in 1965 but grew up in Barcelona. As a young man he studied Translation and Interpretation at the University Autónoma and since then he has worked as a Spanish teacher in Barcelona, in Cologne (Germany) and in Sydney (Australia). He now lives in Madrid.He has also been the editor of a journal for English students and has published several teaching materials for Spanish students.

Carlo Cassola (17 March 1917 - 29 January 1987) was an important Italian novelist and essayist. His novel La Ragazza di Bube (1960), which received the Strega Prize, was adapted into a film (named the same as the novel) by Luigi Comencini in 1963.

Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901-1974) was a German writer. She started as a poetry writer, but during the Second World War she found her own voice. Her short stories often reflect her own history as well as adding both psychological and magical dimensions. You can recognize the fact that she used to write poetry in most of her later novels, where she reflects on her childhood village through memory fragments.

ROBERT LOUIS BALFOUR STEVENSON (1850 -1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie,and G. K.

Natalia Ginzburg (14 July 1916, Palermo - 7 October 1991, Rome) was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Most of her works were also translated into English and published in the United Kingdom and United States. An activist, for a time in the 1930s she belonged to the Italian Communist Party. In 1983 she was elected to Parliament from Rome as an Independent.