Authors
ISMAEL DÍAZ YUBERO
Díaz Yubero spent his professional career working in the Administration, in positions related to food health. He was also a professor, member of the Consejo de la Cátedra Ferrán Adriá in the Camilo José Cela University, in the Sommeliers and Headwaiters in the Madrid Chamber of Commerce and the course in Gastronomic Journalism in the Faculty of Communication Sciences in the University of Madrid. Also of mention are his five awards in the National Gastronomic Award, Spanish Foodstuffs Award, and the Dr. Marañón Award in the Spanish Gastronomic academy.
JÓSE LUIS HERNÁNDEZ GARVI
He has been awarded the twelfth Algaba Biography, Memoir and Historical Investigation Award for his essay Heroes, Villains and Geniuses. Distinguished Foreigners at the Habsburg’s Service.He collaborates with various specialized media outlets: Muy Historia, Revista Española de Historia Militar, La Aventura de la Historia and Año Cero.He is the author of Episodios ocultos del franquismo (2011); Glorias y miserias imperiales (2012); Los cruzados de los reinos de la Península Ibérica (2013); Adonde quiera que te lleve la suerte (2014); Magnicidio: crónica negra de los Presidentes asesinados de los Estados Unidos (2018); La Guerra Civil española en 50 lugares (2019) among others.
MIGUEL ÁNGEL ÓRDOÑEZ
Miguel Ángel Ordóñez Anula is a writer, awarded the José Ortega y Gasset Award. Graduated in Sciences of Information from the Complutense university of Madrid, he also has a doctorate in History. He wrote for the journal El País from Haiti and the Dominican Republic for many years and developed a successful journalistic career in the latter as well as directing the Communication School for the Catholic University of Santo Domingo, in which he is a distinguished honorary professor. He has also been the chief of press in the Township of Marbella. He has published Dos siglos de bribones y algún malandrín (2014), El Caso Malaya. Los elefantes asolaron Marbella ( 2010), etc.
ANDRÉS AMORÓS GUARDIOLA
Andrés Amarós is a professor of Spanish literature and writer. He has published upwards of 150 narrative books, essays, literary criticism, theatre, music and bullfighting. He was awarded the National Essay Award, the National Literary Critic Award and the Spanish Royal Academy’s Fastenrath Award. He has been the cultural director of the Juan March Association and the managing director of the National Institute of the Scenic Arts and Music of Spain’s Ministry of Culture. Honored Academic in the Royal Academy of Valencian Culture and correspondent academic for the Royal Academy of Good Letters in Seville… He currently directs the “Music and Lyric” program in Es.radio and is a taurine critic in the ABC journal.
MELQUÍADES PRIETO
Licensed in Romance Studies form the University of Salamanca, he devoted his first thirteen professional years to the teaching of Spanish literature, a time during which he also published textbooks. From his efforts came facsimile reproductions of Spanish Golden Age worksVida de Quevedo, Orfeo en lengua castellana, Obras de Villamediana, La vega del Parnaso, Arte nuevo de hacer comedias…) and from the 20th century (Cuentos para soñar de María Teresa León; Cuentos de Calleja; Antoñita de Borita Casas, Pinocho de Bartolozzi and the very successful reproduction of the älvarez Encyclopedia in all its cycles). Directing the EDAF classical library he prepared an anthology of Spanish and Spanish-American poestry. Author of Yo hice la mili; La Guerra de papel. Origen iconográfico de la Leyenda Negra.
ENRIQUE HERREROS
A journalist and lawyer, linked since his youth to the world of cinema; chief of publicity for United Artists in Madrid; for Paramount Pictures in Latin America; of the famed director Samuel Bronston, based at first in Buenos Aires and later in Madrid; he directs the publicity of the CBS Cinema Center in Spain and Latin America; works for producer Melvin Simon in Hollywood. Collaborator of the Domingo Magazine; of the El Alcázar journal, of the Gaceta Ilustrada magazines, La Actualidad Española y Miss;Spanish correspondent for Channel 12 in La Habana (1959-1960). He has published 443 pieces in the ABC journal to this day. He has been present for twelve Oscar Awards, presenting the first three for TVE.
MANUEL MARQUÉS MARTÍN
He is a writer, scriptwriter and director from the world of finance. In 2012 he embarked on a multidisciplinary project which allowed him to develop his side as a writer and playwright. His works are as follows:
Director and scriptwriter on the short film Amador. El último minotauro (2014).
Director and adaptor of the play A media luz los tres by Miguel Mihura in the El Corral de Lope studio from 2016 to 2018; director and adaptor of the play El Coloquio de los Perros by Miguel de Cervantes during the 2016-2018 season.
He is currently directing the play De Dioses y Santos in the El Corral de Lope studio.
PACO ÁLVAREZ
Born in Madrid, 1965; researcher, geographer and historian as well as publicist, pundit and family man. He has worked in fifteen countries across two continents for companies such as Airbus, Banco Santander, Benetton, Cartier, Chivas Regal, Colgate, Peugeot, Philips, Repsol, Telefónica, Vuitton, etc. He has worked alongside the Spanish Navy, the Township of Madrid, Discovery Channel, La 2 (RTVE), National Geographic Channel, Canal 7 Castilla y León, El Toro TTV, Radio Inter and COPE as well as Academia Play Clío Historia, Muy Historiain multiple cultural projects. Officially named a Friend of the Marine Infantry, he is a member of the Associations: Divulgadores de Historia, Mos Religiosus, Bona Dea and Día de la Romanidad. He recently published Somos Romanos, Estamos locos estos Romanos and Romanos de Aquí.
DOMINGO DELGADO DE LA CÁMARA
Writer and bullfighting aficionado, he is called by many a professor in the noble art of bulls. He has been collaborating since 1988 in the press, radio and television. He has written Revisión de Toreo (Alianza Editorial, 2004), Entre Marte y Venus (2015), he has been at the lead of Al Toro por los Cuernos since 2017, a digital proposal that combines a YouTube channel and a web in which he journals bullfighting news.
MIGUEL DEL REY
This specialist in uniformology and vexillology, author of tens of articles and historical essays, was awarded in 2011 with the ninth Algaba Award of Biography, Memoirs and Historical Research.
Among his later works, these stand ou El oro de América (2016); De Salamina a las Malvinas (2016); Fidel Castro (2016); Demonios del Norte (2017); El libro del soldado napoleónico (2017). Translated into Portuguese).; Tormenta roja (2017); Cazadores de almas (2017); Sahara, la provincia olvidada (2018); De Felipe V a Felipe VI (2018); Mandos y generales de la Guerra Civil (2019).
JÓSE MARÍA LÓPEZ RUÍZ
ournalist, publicist and essayist, he has written multiple essays for specialized press outlets such as Historia y Vida, Madrid Día y Noche, Historia 16, Cuadernos Republicanos, Revista de Historia, etc. Among his later books, the following stand out: Los Pecados de la carne (2001); Crónica negra del siglo XX (2002); Los seres más crueles y siniestros de la Historia (2003); Un siglo de risas (2006); 1936: El año de los sueños y las pesadillas (2019); Las cupletistas. Un ejercito de mujeres libres (2019), among others. He also has unpublished works such as Málaga: memoria de un siglo (1901-2000); Memorias del cine español: 1896-1996; or Crónicas de la Gran Vía (1910-1960).
JAVIER CUESTA
Graduated in Sciences of Information from the Complutense University of Madrid, as well as a masters degree in journalism and education from both the university and the Ramón Areces Foundation, this journalist, writer and scriptwriter has dedicated a great paortion of his career to the world of cinema as a collaborator in different journals and magazines in the Spanish sceme and as a director of the Pantalla 3, la Ventana Madrid and Blancoli Editorial. He has published more than a dozen books, amongst which stand out 100 diosas en 100 años de cine; Ava Gardner, el mito; Elizabeth Taylor, una vida de cine, sexo y alcohol; Marilyn Monroe, 92-60-90, and a dictionary of cinema alongside josé Luis Mena. He has also performed as director in works by Emmer Productores Multimedia and accidentally became a politician when he was elected mayor of Paracuellos de Jarama by the Neighbour’s Citizen Iniciative for Jarama Party (ICxP).