Manuel Guisande was born in Santiago de Compostela in 1958. He studied law in Santiago and wrote for the newspaper El Correo Gallego, the weekly El Orzán and the Ideal Gellego. Since 1986 he has worked on la Voz de Galicia. He won a theatre competition with the journalist Ramón Barrena for the work Los Aparcacientos de Pacópolis.