Josep Palau i Fabre

Poet, narrator, essay writer and playwright. Considered one of the greatest international experts on the work and personality of Picasso, the studies he has made having been translated into a dozen languages. He played an important part in the resumption of post-war Catalan literature as founder and editor of the magazine Poesia and an organiser of recitals. He has translated works by Rimbaud and Balzac, among other authors. His poetry has been brought together in Poemes de l’alquimista (1979), and his articles on art and literature in Quaderns de l’Alquimista (1976). He has been awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi (1989), and the Premi d’Honor de les Lletres Catalanes (1999). He is an honorary member of the Association of Catalan Language Writers.

Siscu Baiges

Journalist, member of SICOM.

Luz Saavedra

Representative of Médecins Sans Frontières.

Elvira Posada

Lawyer, member of ACPC and ACPDDH.

Ramon Roca

Coordinator of ONGS Solidàries de Girona.

Jordi Petit

Honorary President of Coordinadora Gai-Lesbiana.

Pilar Rebaque

Lawyer specialising in Family Law.

Joan Carles Moya

Lawyer, member of Coordinadora Gai-Lesbiana.

Olga Viñuales

Anthropologist.

Yliana Sánchez

Director of the scientific and medical journal BSTC. Vice-President of the CTC.

Xavier Arbos

Professor of Constitutional Law University of Girona.

Lluís Cabre

Head of Hospital de Barcelona Intensive Care Unit.

Hernán Hormazábal

Professor of Criminal Law University of Girona.

Aurora Bau

Member of the Association Dret a Morir Dignament.

Eduardo Rojo Torrecilla

Professor of Labour Law, University of Girona.

Ramón Paniagua

Professor of International Law, University of Girona.

Alfonso Salomón

Professor of Social Sciences (Equatorial Guinea).

Jose Angel Ezcurra

Born in Orihuela in May 1921. A journalist and lawyer, he was a correspondent for La Vanguardia, a critic in Las Provincias and the director of Radio Mediterráneo. In 1946, with other young journalists, he founded Triunfo, a weekly film magazine, which became a general information magazine in 1962. In 1955, at the request of Bardem, he took over the film magazine Objetivo, which was suspended shortly afterwards. In 1957, he founded Primer Acto, a theatre journal, and in 1962, Nuestro Cine. In 1972, based on a project by Chumy Chúmez, he founded the weekly humorous magazine Hermano Lobo and, in 1974, the monthly review Tiempo de Historia. With Triunfo, during the dictatorship, he achieved wide social recognition even though it was subject to fiercely repressive censorship. In 1971 and 1975, it was sanctioned with two four-month suspensions. Finally, in 1976, things seemed to return to normal. In 1982, thirty years ago, Triunfo ceased publication.

Ramón Chao

He was born in Vilalba (Lugo), on 21 July 1935. An excellent pianist, he has been living in Paris since 1955. He is the editor in chief of Radio-France Internationale (Iberian language section), creator of the prestigious Juan Rulfo award and a contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique. He did excellent work as a journalist for the magazine Triunfo and has been a literary critic for Le Monde since 1992. He is the author of several books: Georges Brassens (1973), Guía secreta de París (1975), El lago de Como (1983), Palabras en el tiempo de Alejo Carpentier (1984), Un posible Onetti (1994), Un tren de hielo y fuego: Mano Negra en Colombia (1994) and Prisciliano de Compostela (1999), among others.

In 2002, he published a book about La Belle Otero (La passion de Caroline Otero: roman) and is currently preparing two other books: one on the work of Miquel Barceló and the other on J. L. Borges, with Ignacio Ramonet. Creator of the Fonda Chao Foundation. Among other awards, he was the winner of the LiberPress Award in 2001.

Javier Cercas

He was born in Ibahernando (Cáceres), in 1962. He is Professor of Spanish Literature in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Girona and has also worked at the University of Illinois, in Urbana. He is the author of El móvil (1987), El inquilino (1989), El vientre de la ballena (1997), Una buena temporada (1998), Relatos reales (2000), La obra literaria de Gonzalo Suárez (1993) and Soldados de Salamina (2001). He contributes regularly to the Catalan edition of El País.

Angel Montoto

Born in Mahon on 4 October 1948, he is a journalist and lawyer. He started as international editor for Mundo weekly magazine and for the newspaper La Prensa. He was assistant to H. M. Enzensberger in the film Buenaventura Durruti, anarquista, based on the novel El corto verano de la anarquía. He has worked for and contributed to various publications, such as: Sábado Gráfico, Die Welt Wolche, Gaceta ilustrada, El Periódico, Interviú, Ajoblanco, Man, Class, and Woman. He has been director of the weeklies Bazaar, Siesta, Actual and Menorca Gráfica and co-director of Interviú. He directed and wrote the script of the feature film Menorca: un continente. He wrote scripts for TVE’s Delitos de Estado and has also published several books: Blanco (1982), Menorca mía (1985), Bangkok (1991) and L’Espagne (1992).

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Journalist and writer.

Ramon Lobo

Writer and journalist with El País.

Pere Bru Rovira

Journalist with La Vanguardia newspaper.

Gervasio Sánchez

Journalist and photographer.