Lenia Major was born in 1971 in the green Normandy. Now, she lives in the white Alsace. She loves writing stories for children, and characters like Eva are her favorite. People who don't just fall in line, but stand out in a crowd. Her website is: www.leniamajor.com!

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.