Irene Aparici

The award-winning author Irene Aparici was born with a notebook in one hand and a pencil in the other. She has lived in Spain and in Ecuador. As a professional, she has worked mainly in the financial sector, but has also worked as a professor at a university, a rural estates administrator, a mediator in extrajudicial conflicts, and an international cooperator. In 2011, Irene was diagnosed with breast cancer, to which she lost her battle in 2014.

Enrique Quevedo was born in Cádiz, Spain, in 1967, and currently resides in Seville. From a very young age, Enrique was interested in drawing and also in the operation of mechanical devices, which led him to study Fine Arts in Seville, where he majored in painting. Today, he is a full-time illustrator, mostly working on children's picture books (The Great Magician of the World, Fairground Lights, The Dance of Time