Juan Martos Quesada was born in Jaén in 1953. He has a Phd in Semitic Philology by the University of Granada, with a thesis in Islamic Law in al-Andalus. Currently he is the Director of the Arab Studies Department at Madrid University.

Juan Martorell (Madrid, 1947) has a degree in Science from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, where he worked as a professor in the Petrological Department.

Juan Martínez de las Rivas (Buenos Aires, 1957), during his school years lived in Madrid. Between 1978 and 1981, he was part of the CLOC group of “Arte y Desarte”, devoted to counterculture and literary activism. He works as a physician. Fuga lenta is his first novel.

Arzak was born in Donostia (San Sebastian) and, since 1970, has worked to convert his restaurant into one of the foremost names in world gastronomy. He is one of the undisputed leaders of New Basque Cuisine, a movement which was the basis of the Spanish culinary revival.