Gemma Freixas Barcelona, (1962), graduated in philosophy and has combined work in audiovisual production with print journalism on the Sunday papers La Vanguardia, El Periódico and Avui, and such travel magazines as Geo, Rutas del Mundo and Todo Turismo. She is the author of the books, Tanaka, un recorrido por la actual Myanmar (Tanaka: A journey through Mayanmar, 2003) and Djoliba, la curva del Niger en Mali (Djoliba: The Niger River curve in Mali, 2009). Her Catalonian grandfather went to Spanish Guinea in 1930, where he ran the Casino Santa Isabel. Her mother was born in the casino, got married in the colony, and in 1958 came to live in Barcelona.