Celsius Festival 232 in Aviles 2022

From July 19 to 23, the 11th edition of the CELSIUS 232 Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction Festival will be held in Avilés.

The festival brings together the best representatives of science fiction, horror and fantasy literature, both national and international, in the city, although there is always room for other genres and disciplines.

In this edition there will be no shortage of morning activities for the little ones along with talks, demonstrations, book presentations and many more appointments for the older ones.

You can check the festival program on the Celsius website.

Authors Celsius 232

These are the participants in this year’s Celsius edition in alphabetical order.

Adrian Hyde

Adrián Hyde was born and raised in Avilés and is a Hispanic philologist by training. He got his start as a writer with Hate Reincarnated, a dark fantasy novel that he presented at Celsius in 2020.

Now he is back with us with Take me to the skies of Aradia, a science fiction novel starring Mechas turned into the defense of humanity against an alien civilization with very hostile intentions. It is the first Mechas novel written in Spanish, and also by a purebred Avilesian.

Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky (Lincolnshire, 1972) studied zoology and psychology at the University of Reading, and the knowledge acquired in both disciplines is very present in his literary work. After trying for fifteen years to be published, Empire in Black and Gold saw the light in 2008, with which he began the Shadows of the Apt saga. Thus, he began a career as a science fiction author, combined with his work as a legal advisor , which has earned him more and more popularity and recognition. It should be noted that part of the plot of Shadows of the Apt (and several of his subsequent novels) comes from role-playing campaigns directed by Tchaikovsky. Adrian is also the author of the Echoes of the Fall series, of the recent After the War or of several self-contained novels, among which “Heirs of Time (Children of Time)” should be highlighted, with which he won the Arthur C. Clarke in 2016, “Spiderlight” (these two published in Spanish) or “The tiger and the wolf”, which earned him the British Fantasy Award for best fantasy novel. In addition, part of Tchaikovsky’s work has also been translated into Catalan, specifically Trescafocs (Firewalkers) and One day all this will be yours (Un dia tot aixo serà teu).

In 2022 Adrian has won the British Science Fiction Award with Shards of the Earth and it has just been announced that two more of his titles will soon see the light of day in our country. With Tchaikovsky we begin what has become a tradition at Celsius232, bringing to the festival authors unpublished in Spain and who seem to us to be of great quality, and it is a pleasure to welcome him back to our country.

Africa Vazquez Beltran

Africa Vázquez Beltrán (Zaragoza, 1990) has been a consumer of stories since her earliest childhood. Such a breeding ground and the desire to create her own story led her to win the 3rd Jordi Serra i Fabra award with her first novel, “With views of the sky”, in 2008. Her subsequent novels (some published in Spain and others in Mexico , although they have later enjoyed a new life in our country) are framed in youth literature of a romantic and historical nature and while she was writing them she had time to graduate in History, to work as a children’s and youth librarian (Library of Aragon) and to give workshops of literary creation.

He arrived at Celsius232 with his first foray into science fiction, titled “The City of Thieves.” Beltrán takes us in it to the underground city of Ysgrand, where thieves, gangsters, patricians, androids converge and whose existence is about to turn around after the theft of some strange seeds. The work is an exercise in polyphony by having eleven different narrators to create a single story that continues in “The Valley of Thieves”, where we discover that Ysgrand was only one piece of a much larger puzzle. In the tenth Celsius232 he told us about “El crisantemo dorado”, part of a biology that started with “El juramento crimesí” (one of the novels originally published in Mexico), and in the summer of 2022 he will return to Avilés to present us his new saga and tell us about the first two installments of “The clan with no name”, in which a witch, a bard, a nobleman, an assassin and an outlaw can change the destiny of Gaerias, a place where magic attracts the dead. Delighted that you are back with us in Avilés.

Ana Campoy

Ana Campoy was born in Madrid in 1979 and fell victim to literature in her earliest childhood. She graduated in Audiovisual Communication, she worked as a journalist for a while while studying dubbing and acting, but she soon returned to literature. With her book, The Ten Elster Birds, she began her famous saga The Adventures of Alfred Agatha (Edebé). The collection chronicles the fictional adventures of Alfred Hitchcock and Agatha Christie after meeting as children and forming a detective agency. To date, eight installments of this popular collection have already appeared, which has already been sold to countries such as France, China, Italy, Greece, Poland, Turkey, Romania and Slovenia.Far from stopping at this saga, Campoy has been embarking on a lot of projects, from the children’s novel The Dragon of Park Güell (2015, La Galera) or the collection Soy un superhero (2015, Edebé) to the adaptation for early readers of El Lazarillo de Tormes (2016, La Galera) and El Quijote (2016, The Galley).

In 2017 Ana published La cronopandilla: el tunnel del tiempo (Montena), her first foray into the young adult novel and with which she won the Jaén award for juvenile fiction. And in 2018 the first installment of Familia a la fuga (Loqueleo) was released, a saga of children’s literature in which, with the invaluable help of Álex Alonso for illustration, Campoy claims the role of the book as an active and fun element. Ana’s most recent series narrates, with illustrations by Eugenia Ábalos, the adventures of Pepa Guindilla, a restless girl with a great ability to get into hilarious adventures that also invite reflection.

Ana Draghia

Ana Draghia (Romania, 1992) is a Spanish Language and Literature teacher at a Secondary School and a doctor in Educational Research. In 2016, at the age of twenty-three, she was a finalist for the IV HarperCollins Ibérica International Romantic Novel Award with Tan nos and she was an honorable mention in the same award two years later with The girl with the blue hat lives opposite (2018). Over the last few years, she has published various romantic novels, including Have you seen how it rains flowers? (2017), Where your name sleeps (2018), A room on the moon (2018), Sad rainy beach (2018), Far away from here, with you (2019), The summer we invented snow (2021) and Alba and endless spring (2022). Over time, Draghia has been exploring other subgenres, such as the romantic fantasy novel The Castle of Deceit (2021) and genres, such as the fantastic in The Ancestors of the Bone (2022). In this novel, Ana introduces us to the mysterious City of Palaces, where a half-human sorcerer has just arrived persecuted by the clans. She will talk to us about that novel and more at Celsius232.

Ana Llurba

Ana Llurba (1980, Córdoba, Argentina) has published This is the exact moment when time begins to run (Antonio Colinas Award for Young Poetry), the novels La Puerta del Cielo and Hemoderivadas, Family Constellations (stories, Celsius Black Week Award de Gijón and long list Finestres Award) and Érase Otra vez. Contemporary Fairy Tales (Essays). She has a degree in Modern Letters from the UNC, Córdoba, Argentina, and a master’s degree in Comparative Literature and another in Publishing, both from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​Spain. She was recently selected as a Writer-in-Residence by UNESCO’s Literary Residencies Program in Krakow, Poland, and has received a Research Fellowship sponsored by the City of Berlin, Germany. She is currently a Bilingual MFA Fellow in Creative Writing at UTEP (El Paso, Texas). Some of her texts have been translated into Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Lithuanian, German and English.

Andrea Maceiras

Andrea Maceiras (A Coruña, 1987) is a writer of children’s and youth literature, as well as a doctor in Hispanic Philology and a graduate in Galician Philology. She published her first novel, Bolboreta Project in 2007 and since then she has written a dozen novels for children and adolescents, many of them recognized with regional and national awards. In her works she addresses issues such as identity, environmentalism or the search for our place in the world, frequently integrating magical and fantasy elements. In 2015 she won the Jules Verne award for her work Europa Express and in 2017 she published What I know about silence. In 2018 he won the Lazarillo Award for Cuenta nine estrellas, a work included in the 2019 OEPLI honor list. In 2020 he won the Merlín with La Hoja Azul and in the same year he won the Reading Club Award from the Department of Education. of the Xunta de Galicia. In 2022, she wins the Anaya Award for Elephant Soul, her latest novel and which she will come to talk to us about next July at Celsius232.

Andres Fernandez

A resident of Argame, Morcín, Andrés Fernández was born in September 2003 and is currently studying Classical and Romanesque Studies at the University of Oviedo. He has spread some stories in El Comercio and has also been a contributor to magazines such as Fermento or Refuelgu. He is a regular at the literary gathering El Follón. Winner of the IV Morcín Story Contest in the youth category, at the age of 17 he has written his first novel, “1809: Letters of the Trubia Revolution”, already published by Ediciones Radagast.

Beatriz Gimenez de Ory

Beatriz Giménez de Ory (Madrid, 1972), graduated from the Autonomous University of Madrid in Hispanic Philology, has been a secondary school teacher of Language and Literature since 1998, has worked as a translator and began writing literature for adults. After winning the XI Faroni Cultural Circle International Prize for a hyper-short story for adults in 2003, Giménez de Ory switched to children’s literature, a genre in which all of her production is written in verse.

Winner of the III City of Orihuela International Poetry Prize for Children in 2011 with “The verses of the silly book” and the IX Luna de Aire Award, granted by the Center for the Study of Promotion of Children’s Reading and Literature (CEPLI). in 2012 for “Canciones de Garciniño’”, in 2014 he won the Fundación Cuatrogatos Award for “Bululú”. In 2017 she repeated the award with “To be a Pirate” (SM). She is co-author of the educational project “A day at the opera”, which earned her the Madrid Autonomous Community Prize for Pedagogical Innovation in 2006.

In 2021 he has won the National Prize for Children’s and Youth Literature for “A thread binds me to you”. She will speak to us about this last work and her entire career at XI Celsius232, which will be her first visit to the festival.

Ben Boquelet

Ben Bocquelet (Gravelinas, France, 1980) studied animation at the École des Métiers du Cinéma d’Animation in Angoulême and moved to London in 2003 to work in the world of animation. There he went to work at Studio AKA, an advertising agency specializing in animation, where he met people like Mic Graves, who would later become one of his collaborators.

While on the staff of Studio AKA, Bocquelet shot the short film The Hell’s Kitchen and was a designer on The Little Short Sighted Snake.

After leaving Studio AKA, and encouraged by Phil Hunt, who had been its creative director, Bocquelet went to work in 2007 at the Cartoon Network studio in London. At first, his job was to help those who submitted proposals to the studio so that they were well developed, but when the possibility opened up for Cartoon Network employees to launch their own projects, Bocquelet was encouraged to propose what would eventually become The amazing world of gumball The series, in which all kinds of animation techniques are mixed and is characterized by a sense of hooliganism and surrealism, narrates the adventures of the members of the Watterson family (tribute to the creator of the legendary Calvin and Hobbes newspaper strip ) and their friends and acquaintances.

Throughout its nine seasons, the series has won the Annie Award in 2011 for the best children’s animated series, three British Academy Children’s Awards (BAFTA) and the Annecey International Animated Film Festival award in 2011 for the best animated series for television.

He will talk to us about all this, about the script for the film adaptation of the series and about his other projects throughout XI Celsius232.

Bernard Torello

The childhood of Bernard Torelló (Barcelona, ​​1994) was marked from the beginning by the influence that the Lord of the Rings movies had on him. From the film adaptation it went on to the original novels by J.R.R. Tolkien and he has not stopped delving into them ever since.

In 2016, while studying at the University of Barcelona, ​​he created a YouTube channel called Kai47, dedicated to talking about fantastic sagas such as Tolkien’s Middle Earth or Harry Potter, by J.K. Rowling.

In 2021 he published The Demon of Arbennios, his first novel, in which he tells us the story of a former elite soldier, Kai, who lives in Arbennios and sees how an unexpected attack ends up leading him to be condemned by society to the he had defended for years and to embark on a path of revenge. We were lucky that he attended the X edition of Celsius232 to present us his debut as a novelist, and this year he repeats (in collaboration with Ediciones Minotauro) to participate in a project of which we still cannot reveal details but which we are sure will result in the most interesting.

Blanca Fernandez

Blanca Fernández (Bimenes, 1994) studied a degree in Classical Studies and a minor in Asturian, a language in which she writes stories and creates stories. But for many people, she is better known as Shiro Ychigo, one of the most popular cosplayers in Asturias. She has been an inveterate reader of manga, science fiction and everything that comes her way since she was little. She created her first cosplay in 2011 and hasn’t stopped working on them since then. She is a regular at the Barcelona Manga Fair, the Madrid Japan Weekend or the Gijón Metropolis (where she has won some awards), she has also attended Celsius232 on several occasions. Blanca also has a ‘review’ channel on YouTube (posing and demonstrations of how to wear the costumes) and a space on Play Presta, where she discloses the cosplay universe.

She premiered her presence as a novelist in the tenth edition of the festival, to which she brought us L’home les caparines, a fantastic genre book written in Asturian, with which she also became the youngest novel writer of Asturian letters. In addition, in 2021, Blanca won the Radagast prize for fantastic novels with the work Trovadoresca, which she will present to us at the XI edition of Celsius232, where we will also be able to talk to her about the Enriqueta González Rubín prize for fiction for those under 30 years of age, the first installment of which has just been awarded. take with No that five the beings of legend.

Borja Berdasco

Borja Berdasco (Gijón, 1985) has a degree in Business Sciences and spends a good part of his professional life in the financial sector. A fan of genre literature since he was a child, especially science fiction, Berdasco has been writing stories since his earliest childhood.

As a result of his effort to combine his professional life with the need to tell stories, Borja published his first novel, Sumun Acte La Tormenta, at the end of 2021. In his first long work, Berdasco introduces us to half a dozen characters whose lives change irremediably on a stormy night. He will talk about his adventures, The Organization, Morpheus and more at XI Celsius232.

Brian McClellan

Brian McClellan (Cleveland, 1986) began his literary career when, while still a teenager, he posted several stories on websites dedicated to the Wheel of Time role-playing game. Encouraged by his parents to continue writing, McClellan studied the equivalent of English philology (specializing in creative writing) at Brigham Young University while developing short stories and novellas with which to polish himself as an author. After participating in courses for writers of authors such as Brandon Sanderson or Orson Scott Card, Brian won second prize in the Writers of the Future Contest in 2008.

His first novel, Blood Promise, was released in 2013 and earned him the Morningstar Award for Best New Fantasy Author in 2014. Blood Promise was also the first installment in the Gunpowder Wizards trilogy, completed in 2014 and 2015 with The Scarlet Campaign and with The Autumn Republic. This first series was followed by a new trilogy, Gods of Blood and Powder, consisting of Sins of Empire (2017), Wrath of Empire (2018), and Blood of Empire (2019).

To these two trilogies we must add eleven short novels set in the Gunpowder Wizards universe, the books Uncanny Collateral and Blood Tally, from the Valkyrie Collections series, War Cry and In the Shadow of Lightning, his most recent novel and which It will be released in English in June 2022. In addition to that, Brian has a podcast called Page Break, where he has conversations with other industry professionals. A pleasure to have in Celsius232, and in collaboration with Gamon, his publisher in Spain, with one of the most interesting voices in fantasy today.

Bruno Puelles

Bruno Puelles (Madrid, 1990) has been writing stories even before he knew how to use the space bar on the computer. An unrepentant reader and a great fan of science fiction and fantasy, Puelles closed 2017 with three novels published in that year: Inquebrantables, Concerto for invisible orchestra and Autumn Tale, although his plays have been performed since 2009 on different stages. Bruno is also the author of the children’s novel Seven days on an unknown planet, which has given rise to a workshop that we enjoyed in the eighth edition of the festival.

Puelles, who combines all this activity with his work as a translator, proofreader and drama teacher, has also brought the science fiction novel Nistagmo to Avilés, which earned him a mention by the UPC award jury in 2018. In 2021 he brought the Marea festival Dark, a short novel with which he became a finalist for the 7th city of Utrera horror novel award, with a story in our Excelsius, among other things, and in the summer of 2022 he will tell us about his recently published youth novel, The Cycle of the life of the nocturnal butterfly, in which he combines the spirit of the classics, excellent humor and a logic that is as personal as it is personal, and Simbiosis, a work with which he was a finalist for the Minotauro award and which is now part of his label Laberinto . Very happy to have him at Celsius232.

Charles Sissi

Carlos Sisi (Madrid 1971) became known as a writer with Los Caminantes, a zombie novel set in Malaga and which earned him the chance to become part of a generation of horror authors in Spanish at the end of the 2000s. Since then he has maintained a constant production rate, without abandoning the creation of the genre, and four more titles have been added to the saga of Los Caminantes for the time being, although there is already a sixth volume planned. Apart from this series, Sisi has published everything from a short novel (Eden interrupted, which was also his first foray outside the zombie theme) to science fiction (such as Pantheon, space opera with which he won the Minotaur award in 2013) or comic scripts like the one for Midnight and humor strips compiled under the title Historias con alma.

In addition to all this activity, Sisi had already created a series of conversational adventures for ZXSpectrum in the late 1980s and has experience as the director of an online digital magazine and a family business designing and internet solutions. In 2019 he went to the festival to present us with Rojo, a novel with which he began a trilogy of vampires, and last year he was with us again to talk to us about the two installments that close the saga, Fundación and Infierno. On our tenth anniversary he arrived in Avilés with two new novels under his arm, Nocte and Homine Ex Machina, two very different works from each other but both with the author’s characteristic quality, and in 2022 he returns to Avilés with a couple of novelties. On the one hand, it brings us Sorcerer, the long-awaited return of Sisi to the universe of The Necromancer (also in this case with the cover and illustrations by Tomás Hijo), and on the other Alone at the top, a disturbing thriller in which nothing is what it seems . A real pleasure to have Carlos again at Celsius232.

Catriona Ward

Catriona Ward was born in Washington, DC, and traveled halfway around the world growing up, from the United States to Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen and Morocco. After being an English reader at Oxford, Ward settled in New York to start an acting career, and, after returning to London, she took an MA in Creative Writing and began work on her first novel, Rawblood, published in 2015 and with which won the August Derleth Award in 2016. She repeated as deserving of the award (the first author to win it twice) in 2019 with her novel Little Eve, which also earned her the Shirley Jackson. Her next novel, published in Spain in September 2021, is entitled The Last House on Needless Street and is already in the process of being adapted for film with Ward herself as executive producer. In the spring of 2022, Sundial, her most recent work to date, will be released in English.

In addition, Ward has participated in several anthologies of short stories, including some finalists for the ALCS Tom Gallon Trust Award from the Royal Society of Literature in the United Kingdom. She is an extraordinary author whom we discovered at the tenth Celsius232 and who will attend the 2022 edition of the festival with a new title published in Spanish.

chaoko

Chaoko Maker is a visual artist and multidisciplinary content creator, famous for the theatrical, terrifying and bodypaint makeup tutorials that she posts on her social networks, as well as tips and reviews videos. She began actively posting content to her YouTube account in 2017 and today she has more than half a million followers on her platforms. She goes to XI Celsius232 to give a workshop on theatrical and terrifying makeup and body paint.

charles vess

One of the essential names in the world of fantastic art, truly a modern bard who uses the power of images to tell us stories and take us to other worlds, is that of the American illustrator and comic book author Charles Vess, an author whose presence we have already confirmed. this summer at 232 Celsius.

In addition to being the co-creator of Stardust, with Neil Gaiman, one of the most beautiful fairy tales of recent decades (adapted to the novel by Gaiman himself and to the cinema by Matthew Vaughn), we have just seen it published in Spain the stunning full volume of The Earthsea Books by Ursula K. Leguin, with its cover and interior illustrations and, in the United States, enjoy her covers and illustrations for George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones saga. Putting an image to some of the most important works, not only of contemporary fantastic literature, is but the logical step in an author who has collaborated for years with authors of the genre such as Ursula K. Leguin herself, Charles de Lint, Emma Bull, Jane Yolen and so many others.

In addition to reviewing folklore and popular tradition over the years in many of his short works as a comic author, such as those collected in his work The Book of Ballads and Sagas (with the collaboration of many successful writers and screenwriters) , has also made a saga of The Valiant Prince, expanded the universe of Jeff Smith’s Bone by collaborating with him on Rose, has contributed to unforgettable fantastic headers such as Conan, Epic Illustrated, Kull, Heavy Metal and many more; he has put his grain of sand in essential series such as Sandman, Fables or The Books of Magic, to name a few; and he has even drawn Spirits of the Earth, in what is Spiderman’s most fantasy adventure in his long history as an icon of superhero comics.

An essential graphic trajectory, to which he will soon add his first foray as a novelist, which has earned him winning genre literature awards such as the Hugo, the Locus and the World Fantasy Award on several occasions each, as well as the Eisner, also on several occasions, from the comics industry.

In addition, we had the privilege of having him as the author of the poster for our tenth anniversary. A pleasure to receive you in Avilés in the summer of 2022.

Chris Claremont

Although Chris Claremont (London, 1950) was born in the United Kingdom, he moved to the United States in his early childhood and is, without a doubt, one of the best-known and most renowned screenwriters in the history of North American and world comics. His career in comics began when he joined Marvel as an editorial assistant while studying drama and political science at Bard College. In 1973 he wrote his first script for the publisher and in 1975 he became the regular writer for the adventures of Iron Fist in Marvel Premiere, a series in which he worked for the first time with what would become his partner in one of the most creative teams celebrated of the world comic: John Byrne.

Claremont becomes, also in 1975, the screenwriter of The Uncanny X-Men (The X-Men). The series, which was not going through its best moments, quickly became a bestseller and critic, especially from 1977 when John Byrne took over the pencils. Claremont wrote the series for sixteen years, and in that time he has provided readers with some of the most memorable sagas of all time, from the creation of Dark Phoenix and the death of Jean Gray to Days of Future Past or the graphic novel God loves, man kills to name just a few. But Claremont’s activity was not limited to the mother series, but he was also responsible for the creation of The New Mutants, the Excalibur series or the collection simply called X-Men, whose first issue is still the most popular comic best-seller of history, with more than eight million copies.

Apart from his work with mutants, Claremont has also written the adventures of Spider-Man or the Fantastic Four for Marvel, among others, and has been in charge of some projects for DC, such as a brief stage in the JLA or the series (of his property) Sovereign Seven, Image, such as Wetworks or a Wild C.A.T.S. saga, or Dark Horse. In addition, Claremont has written several novels, including Primer Vuelo, published by Dolmen Editorial in Spain, and carries out many charitable and outreach activities. We are not exaggerating when we say that we are facing one of the great referents of popular culture of the last forty years, father of dozens of characters that are part of our collective imagination.

Covadonga Ballesteros

Covadonga Ballestero (Siero, Asturias) specialized in creating fiction for film and television. If he leaves the house and you give him a lot of coffee, he becomes an assistant director. Or in production. She develops projects from the co-founded brand La gran ola and combines it with her work as a desk editor and style corrector, known as The script of the books. She has a dark secret: she is also a journalist. She tries that her works are built from the perspective of gender, sustainability and inclusion. The green of the zombies is the first novel that comes out of the drawer to make room for the rest. Her free time is given away to hardcore concerts.

Covadonga González-Pola

Covadonga González-Pola studied environmental sciences at the Autonomous University of Madrid and has a master’s degree in Sustainability, but she is actually a writer and consultant to publishers and writers. Founder of the Tinta Purple school of writing, she has published several novels and a multitude of stories, and in her work we learn from the adventures of a summer gang in Llanes to the adventures of a group of chosen ones in the streets of Magerit, a very similar to our Madrid going through girls who no longer want to be princesses or spaces halfway between suspense and terror.

In the IX edition of Celsius232 he presented us with The Forest of Sleipnir, in which he tells us the story of Annie and her family when they reach the last forest left in their world. This is the author’s first foray into environmental and climate science fiction.

In addition, Covadonga is the editor of several anthologies and arrives at XI Celsius232 with a new book, Desehadas, a fable about love, respect, desire and diversity.

Dam Fernandez

Damián – DAM– Fernández (Gijón, 1984) has studies in Journalism, Design and political and business communication. He has worked as a teacher, infographics designer, photographer and journalist in media such as La Nueva España, El Mundo, El Comercio or miGijón. He has combined his work in this last header with the writing of what will be his first published novel, El oak azul, with which he begins a saga with an Asturian denomination of origin. In it we discover how a door to a new world opens before Julia, revealing to her that nothing in her life is what it seems and where an unstable druid and a peculiar guard will become her allies. We will talk about her and her future projects at Celsius232.

David Santiso

David Santiso is a computer scientist from Aviles specialized in projects such as the YouTube channels Pites de Grao, where he uploads the most varied content, Comicastur, for which he is responsible and where he covers events and interviews Asturian authors. Monkey Donkey, irreverent humor. He also participates in the Café con Sal podcast, and has collaborated in the mystery podcast Clave 45. He makes his debut as an author with Caballo de Cartón, a novel that he will present at the XI Celsius232.

Delia Sherman

Delia Sherman (Tokyo, 1951) is an American author of genre literature, university professor and co-founder of the Interstitial Arts Foundation, among many other activities. A graduate of Vassar University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Brown University, Sherman has written for Women’s Review of Books, the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction and Fantasy Review Annual, has served as an editorial consultant for Tor Books and is a regular speaker and teacher for the Hollins College Children’s Literature Program and the Clarion Science Fiction Writer’s Workshop, the WisCon Writing Workshop, the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop, and the Alpha Teen Writing Workshop.

In addition, Sherman has written several novels. In Spain we have been able to read The Bronze Mirror, which was deserving of the Mythopoeic award, and The Fall of the Kings, written in four hands with Ellen Kushner. The rest of his excellent production remains unpublished in our country, a situation that we hope will begin to change after his visit to XI Celsius232.

Sherman also stands out as an anthologist and is co-founder of the Interstitial Arts Foundation, an initiative that addresses and supports works that cannot be easily ascribed to a specific literary genre but rather live in that space between genres that so well we know the fans of this type of literature and that we like it so much at the festival.

Desiree of Fez

Desirée de Fez is a film critic, programmer and journalist. Member of the selection committee of the San Sebastián Film Festival, he is a columnist for El Periódico de Catalunya and collaborates as a critic in the magazines Fotogramas and Rockdelux, in La Finestra Indiscreta of Catalunya Ràdio and in the magazines Página Dos and Punts de Vista, both of TVE. She also directs and hosts the Marea Nocturna (Radio Primavera Sound) podcasts, specializing in fantasy and horror films, and Reinas del scream (Blackie Books), conversations with creators from different disciplines around the concept of fear. The last thing she has published is Scream Queen, a book somewhere between essay and autofiction in which she explores female fears based on her personal relationship with horror films. And we are lucky that she will come to present it at XI Celsius232 in which she will be her first (but surely not last) visit to the festival.

Ed McDonald

El autor británico Ed McDonald ha desempeñado una enorme variedad de trabajos y vivido en multitud de ciudades y países distintos a lo largo de su vida. Licenciado en Historia antigua por la Universidad de Birmingham, titular de un máster en Historia Medieval por la Universidad de Londres y en la actualidad profesor universitario en la capital británica, McDonald es un verdadero erudito en historia medieval y en esgrima antigua. Esos conocimientos le han resultado de enorme utilidad a la hora de crear sus novelas, caracterizadas por un ritmo trepidante, un tono oscuro y socarrón y personajes muy bien definidos.

In Spain we have been able to enjoy his trilogy of The Mark of the Raven, made up of Blackwing, Ravencry and Crowfall, titles that he will tell us about, in addition to his future projects, at the XI edition of Celsius232. McDonald also practices HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts), a discipline centered on ancient swordsmanship, and says that it helps him a great deal when writing his novels.

ellen kushner

Ellen Kushner (Washington, D.C., 1955) is a multifaceted American genre creator whose talents range from writing to radio and education. A graduate of the prestigious Barnard College, she began in the literary world as an editor in New York, but soon abandoned that activity to write A Point of a Sword, her first novel, a title that has become a cult classic. That first title was followed by Thomas the Rhymer, which earned Kushner the World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic, and two other novels set in La Ribera, The Privilege of the Sword and The Fall of Kings (the latter written in four hands with Delia Sherman), which complete the trilogy begun with A Sword Point.

Kushner also created and hosted the Sound Spirit radio show, which aired on public radio throughout the United States and ran from 1996 to 2010, making her a well-known broadcaster. To these activities we must add Kushner’s performance in the world of theater and her experience (which began in 2012) in the audiobook sector, in which she is a prestigious narrator who has collaborated on many occasions with authors of the stature by Neil Gaiman and where he has also won several awards, including an Audie for his version of A Sword Point.

As if all this were not enough, Kushner is an anthologist and author of a large number of short stories and novellas (we have the privilege of having one of her stories in this year’s Excelsius) and also co-founder and former president of Interstitial Arts Foundation, an initiative that addresses and supports works that cannot be easily ascribed to a specific literary genre but rather live in that space between genres that fans of this type of literature know so well and that we like so much in the festival.

In addition, Ellen is a regular teacher and speaker at the renowned Clarion Workshop and Hollins University’s children’s literature program. She is a true woman with a thousand talents.

Fabian Plaza

Fabián Plaza Miranda (Madrid, 1973) es licenciado en Derecho, tiene un posgrado en estudios internacionales, es un verdadero experto en China moderna y además es escritor. Finalista del Premio Andrómeda de relato en 2008 con Piezas de museo, Plaza fue finalista en 2010 del premio Minotauro con su novela Con otros ojos, título al que sumar los de Magumba, Los mundos que escribes o la reciente Más fría de la guerra, con la que se hizo merecedor del premio Minotauro en 2021 y que es una ucronía ambientada en 1989 en una España en la que sigue el régimen franquista.

An admirer of the rhythm of the works of Brandon Sanderson, whom he considers the current master of fantasy novels, Fabián has also written informative guides, issues of Agencia Kronos (a series of gamebooks that aims to bring history closer to the youngest) , supplements for role-playing games (such as the one entitled Silk and bronze, for the game Karma Zero) or I will be at night. In July 2022 he will visit the festival for the first time.

Gabriel Sanchez Garcia-Pardo

Gabriel Sánchez García-Pardo (Valdepeñas, 1991) is a graduate in Teaching Primary Education with a mention in Music and has a master’s degree in Creative Writing. On a day-to-day basis, he has worked as a teacher at Broadway Jr., his own theater school for children and young people. In addition, García-Pardo writes, sings and acts in the Lorenzo Medina Musical Theater Group. And in his spare time, Gabriel visits and creates other worlds in his novels. The first incursion into fantasy literature came from the hand of Editorial Hidra and was entitled Cruzamundos, and this has been followed by several more, from a delivery of Tú Decides la Aventura, to El Aprendiz Silencioso, and in the spring of 2109 his own children’s collection, Lobos de mar, a tetralogy whose first installment was presented at Celsius232 and around which he organized a very interesting workshop. To this series we must add a work halfway between the young-adult and the new-adult, El Vals de las Hadas Malditas, as well as titles such as Corazón de Rayo, The silent apprentice or the recent El atlas de fuego. It is. In addition, it is very likely that this prolific and wonderful author will add some more news to the list before his visit to Avilés.

Gabriella Campbell

Gabriella Campbell began her professional work in the world of literature when she was still a student of Theory of Literature, selecting and editing texts on the Atramentum website, and from there she launched herself to co-found the Parnaso publishing house. But Campbell was not limited to this type of work, but in parallel he began to publish first poetry Happy Pills, The Tree of Pain and then several four-handed works with José Antonio Cotrina, from The End of Dreams to The Day of the Dragon and its sequel, The Night of the Spectrum or a series of novellas titled Chronicles of the End.

Y además Gabriella tiene una de las webs en castellano de referencia para escritores (tanto aspirantes como consagrados) www.gabriellaliteraria.com en la que recoge consejos basados tanto en su propia experiencia como en artículos de autores a los que sigue. Fruto de toda la experiencia acumulada en la web nace Cómo sobrevivir a la escritura, libro en la que nos explica cómo escribir, publicar y promocionar una obra literaria. Así mismo, Campbell ha impartido talleres para escritores que empiezan con todo tipo de información sobre escritura, publicación, distribución, promoción… Acude al XI Celsius232 con una novedad, Pequeños restos de magia y un taller titulado 100 días de escritura: un desafío para vencer a la resistencia, escribir más y mejor.

Bonnin Gem

Gema Bonnin (Valencia, 1994) has spent a good part of her life in Mallorca, and it is on that island that she discovered as a teenager that she wanted to be a writer. As a result of this desire, she published her first novel, La dama y el dragon, when she was fifteen years old, with which she began her professional literary career. Several more have followed that first title, among which we would highlight Red Arena, with which she began a saga completed with Black Arena and with which she attended the festival for the first time. In those two novels, Ella Bonnin reflects part of her vital experience of coming into contact with a culture other than her own and how that changed her perception of her world. She also brought Celsius232, What the Forest Hides, in which she takes the reader to Rodian, a world where magic is forbidden and those who practice it are persecuted. In El Jardín de Hierro, she introduces us to a world in which faeries and humans have lived together for centuries, until a fairy unleashed the rivalry between them by casting a curse. Perhaps the solution to the conflict lies in Elvia, a half-human, half-fairy girl, and in the human prince, prey to a curse that makes him transform into a beast every night of the full moon. In the spring of 2021, Wandering Stars, a novel with a smuggler, a sergeant and a sovereign in space, came to light and a third title, Reflections of Shalott, is brought to the festival, in which Gema offers us her personal vision of one of the most famous Arthurian myths.

Grace Molina

We could already hear Graciela Molina (1977) as a dubbing professional lending her voice to Toto in Cinema Paradiso or to Chucky in The Diabolical Doll. Able to transition easily from child characters to female leads, Molina is the actress that audiences associate with such well-known actresses as Natalie Portman, Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox, Amy Adams and Christina Ricci. Daughter of the dubbing director Matías Molina, Graciela has lived the job since she was a child and already has a very extensive career behind her. She is an excellent professional, she has given life to characters in television series, live action movies, video games and animation projects. She comes to Celsius232 in 2022 to tell us about her entire career and especially about her work in Disney movies, in which she has participated, giving life, among others, to Ariel in The Little Mermaid and Nala in The Lion King.

Grady Hendrix

Grady Hendrix (Charleston, USA, 1970) is an American novelist, lecturer, journalist and screenwriter who, before dedicating himself professionally to writing, worked as a librarian for the American Society for Psychical Research, an American institution dedicated to parapsychology. A regular columnist for Variety, Playboy or The New York Post, as well as a film critic for the now-defunct The New York Sun, Hendrix published short stories, collaborations on youth literature series, comics with his own script, and even a graphic novel/cookbook/ memoir before his first novel, Horrorstör, saw the light of day in 2014. Set in a store much like IKEA, the book is a well-balanced mix of humor and horror, something that has become one of the hallmarks of the style. by Hendrix.

That first novel, which we could already enjoy in Spain in 2014, has been followed by My best friend’s exorcism, Paperbacks from Hell: The twisted history of 70’s and 80’s horror fiction, We sold our souls, The final girl support group and the Hendrix’s most recent title published in Spanish: Book Club’s Guide to Killing Vampires. In this work, Hendrix continues to play with the mix between elements of everyday life (in this case a book club and neighborhood relationships) and supernatural horror to create his own universe that is consistent with the rest of his work.

In addition to his literary activity, Hendrix has written the screenplays for the films Mohawk and Satanic Panic and is one of the founders of the New York Asian Film Festival.

Hector R.A.

Héctor R. A. has been fond of fantasy, science fiction and literature since he was a child. That love for the fantastic made him discover role-playing games in the early 90s. This hobby led him to create various material, including his first role-playing games, El Santo Eje and Kalevala, winner and finalist respectively of the first two editions of the LIDER magazine National Role-Playing Game Contest. At that same time, around 1993, Maegtal was conceived, a project that has ended up bringing him to the festival finally turned into a role-playing game, of which he is the main designer, a novel and more.

Héctor also has solid experience as an illustrator of covers and interior art for independent authors and publishers such as Cazador de Ratas, Titanium, Apache Libros or Ediciones Catay. He is a finalist for the 2021 Ignotus Awards for the cover of No Matarás.

Ian McDonald

Ian McDonald represents that science fiction that we like so much and that puts the focus on other worlds to speak to us more effectively about our own. In most of his works there is an obvious analogy with the conflicts that he sees nearby in Ireland, and in his work he frequently explores the social response to all kinds of phenomena, from technological advances to the arrival of an extraterrestrial civilization, with works which have earned him prestigious awards such as the Hugo or the John W. Campbell, to give an example, as well as various nominations for others such as the Nebula or the Arthur C. Clarke.

Despite the fact that in our country only a small portion of his important production has been published to date, in recent years we have been fortunate that the Luna trilogy (New Moon, Luna de Lobos and Luna Ascendant) has reached bookstores. ) or titles like The Farside Menace. And we are sure that soon we will be able to enjoy new novels of his in Spain.

Ian Whates

Ian Whates has become a Celsius232 classic in his own right since discovering the festival in its fourth edition. In love with science fiction for as long as he can remember, he began publishing short stories in various fanzines in 1987. Most of these stories were collected in The Gift Of Joy and Growing Pains collections. In 2006 (according to him “by accident”) he created the publisher NewCon Press, which in recent years has won a good handful of awards from the BFSA (British Science Fiction Association). In addition, he has published seven novels that are part of three sagas: City Of A Hundred Rows (three books to date) a talented mix of steam-punk, fantasy and adventure, Noise (The Noise Within The Noise Revealed) a space opera that the author Stephen Baxter defines very well: “as if series 24 met Space Troops” and Dark Angel (Pelquin’s Comet and The Ion Raiders, recently published) which has been defined as a mix between Firefly, the Bourne saga and Indiana jones. In 2017, Torres de Babel, an unpublished anthology of some of his best stories, was published in Spanish and in 2020 we were lucky to have one of his stories in our Excelsius anthology.

Iris Sancho

Iris Sancho has been a role-player since she was very young, she has a doctorate in Organic Chemistry and is a poet (having published the book of poems Coordinate reaction). In the world of role-playing, he has designed “La Cocina” edited with great care by “Allthelittlelights” or Las sombras del Khan, a role-playing game with overtones of historical fantasy in which conflicts of identity, culture and miscegenation are explored, as well as adventures or settings for the games Monsterhearts, Comrades and Lovecraftesque, as well as poems for What we leave in our home (a game by Pepe Pedraz) or Barter/Myths (on the stage Bodas de sal, by Óscar Peña). She comes to XI Celsius232 within our role-playing games section.

Elizabeth Alvarez

Isabel Álvarez is an adventurer who writes adventures for children. She has crossed the desert, slept on the side of a volcano, surfed among sharks and touched a glacier with her hands. This inspired him to write the Maya Erikson children’s book collection. It all begins with The Mystery of the Labyrinth, the journey that changes Maya’s life forever. This is the first book in a series that narrates the adventures of Maya, a brave girl with the spirit of an explorer who will soon discover that she is destined to live one adventure after another.

Ivan Ledesma

Iván Ledesma (Barcelona, ​​1977) is the author of children’s books (such as the Diario de Dan series) and has been working as a writer and screenwriter for more than twenty years, dedicating himself to creative work for all types of media. Responsible for the script of the graphic novel La vampira de Barcelona, ​​Ledesma attended Celsius232 for the first time after having published Negorith (a horror book with which he won the Joaquim Ruyra award) and with novel 184 in which he tells the story of a man who wakes up in a crematorium without knowing who he is or how he got there.

Ledesma is also the owner of a small audiovisual project company that works for production companies and television stations, has written films for Netflix (Xtremo, for example) and has taught script and script analysis courses and workshops. In addition, he has composed the soundtrack for several TV series and has released more than a dozen albums with various groups. At Celsius232 he has told us about projects such as the creation of a role-playing game publishing house, and he goes to the 2022 edition of the festival with two new books under his arm: The circular rite and Three days on the street of the cypress.

Javier Olivares

Javier Olivares (Madrid, 1964) took his first steps in the world of comics and illustration in Madriz magazine, the mythical head of Spanish comics in the eighties and since then he has not stopped publishing. An exceptional illustrator and cartoonist, Olivares has published in both national magazines and publications (among which Rolling Stone, El País Semanal, El Mundo or We Are the Dead should be highlighted) as well as foreign ones, he has been in charge of making the covers of many books, from works by Ana María Matute to classics, among others, by Conan Doyle, Dickens, Jack London or Jane Austen, and has made a multitude of comics, both solo and based on scripts by others. Among his production in vignettes, it is worth mentioning El segador de tus cosas, Estados de lancias or La Estrella Negra as a complete author and his collaborations with the screenwriter Santiago García, from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde to Las Meninas (which earned them, among other many the National Comic Award or an Eisner nomination) or La Cólera.

A separate chapter deserves the collaborations of Olivares with Fernando Marías. From Silence Moves or the tribute to the adventure genre that is Prisoners of Zenda, Olivares and Marías have created their own universe in which both authors unleashed their extraordinary creativity with characters such as the mysterious Pertierra or Alexandra Tintanegra, portrayed by Javier on the poster of the XI edition of the festival.

Possessor of a unique and easily recognizable style, Javier Olivares is without a doubt one of the most original visual creators in Spain. It is a true luxury to have him again in Avilés on the occasion of Celsisu232.

joanne harris

Joanne Harris (Barnsley, United Kingdom, 1964) is an author of Franco-British origin and a graduate in medieval and modern languages ​​from the University of Cambridge. After unsuccessfully trying to become a singer, Harris worked as a teacher for fifteen years, during which time she published three novels, the third of which, 1999’s Chocolat, became a true literary phenomenon that catapulted her into the fame and not only earned him entry into the Sunday Times Best Sellers list, the 1999 Creative Freedom Award or being a finalist for the Costa Book Awards, but it ended up being adapted for the big screen in a Hollywood production.

Since then, Harris has published more than eighteen more novels, among which Runas or The Gospel According to Loki stand out, and in his literary production folklore, superstitions, horror in everyday life or the value of food. In addition, Ella Harris is the author of short novels, short stories, game scripts, opera scripts, audiovisual production scripts, a musical, and several cookbooks. To all this must be added his activity as a jury for many literary awards, his career as a bass player (he has been playing in the same music group since he was 16), the enormous number of awards he has received or the fact that he has been recipient of the Order of the British Empire. It was a privilege to speak with her about all this and many more things during her first visit to Avilés, in the summer of 2022 and within the framework of Celsius232.

Joe Abercrombie

Joe Abercrombie (Lancaster, 1974) has been a regular at the festival since its inception and an author friend of Celsius232. After studying psychology, he began his professional career in television production and as a freelance film and video editor. In 2002 he began his first novel, The Voice of the Swords, which he finished in 2004 and was published in 2006. It is the opening installment of the First Law trilogy, the introduction to the world in which most of the novel takes place. Abercrombie’s literary work. Throughout three more novels, The best revenge, The heroes, Red Earth, the author incorporates genres and elements of popular culture into his universe, but passing them through his filter and adding his very sly sense of humor, a trademark of the house. .

Between 2014 and 2015 Abercrombie published the Broken Sea trilogy of youth literature, set in a world different from that of The First Law but with the house’s trademark style. Medio Rey, the first part of the trilogy, won the first Kelvin505 prize for the best translated youth novel. In 2016 Mortal Edges, her first book of stories, was published in the United Kingdom, in which she revisits some of the most popular characters from her novels and whose Spanish edition she presented to us in 2017.

Since then he has been busy with several projects, among which a new trilogy stands out in the world of The First Law, starring a new generation of characters (some of them descendants of the protagonists of the original trilogy) whose first installment, Un poco of hate, was released in Spain in February 2020. This first novel was followed by El problema de la paz, which was released in Spain in February 2021, and the trilogy is completed in English in September 2021 with The wisdom of crowds, whose Spanish version will be available for the author’s visit to XI Celsius232. A joy to have the British author in Avilés again.

John Wagner

Although he was born in the USA, John Wagner (Pennsylvania, 1949) is an excellent and prolific screenwriter whose name is inevitably associated with some of the best stories and characters in British comics. He began his career in the late 1960s at D.C. Publishing. Thomson & Co and there he met one of the key figures in his career, fellow screenwriter Pat Mills. After several years writing scripts for different series (and even abandoning comics for a time), Wagner achieved his first great success by creating, in 1976 at the request of Pat Mills and for the magazine 2000AD, Judge Dredd, whose graphic appearance was defined by Carlos Ezquerra. Dredd was followed by a multitude of stories and characters for 2000AD and other British magazines, including Robo Hunter and the Strontium Hound, as well as scripts for the Dr. Who comic strip in collaboration with Pat Mills, until At the end of the 1980s (and in the company of Alan Grant, a regular companion in screenwriting) Wagner reached the North American market.

There, Wagner and Grant write, among other things, the adventures of Batman for DC while they continue to produce stories for the United Kingdom as well, among which it is worth highlighting those of Bogey Man, starring a psychiatric patient who believes he is a reincarnation of the characters played by Bogart in his films and that it was the first screen adaptation of Wagner’s work. After several years taking care of characters from different franchises (Wagner is, for example, the first screenwriter to write Bobba Fett stories in cartoons), in 1997 Wagner’s first scripted graphic novel, A History of Violence, sees the light. Drawing by Vince Locke, we are told the story of a former hit man who moves to a suburb and leads a very ordinary existence until the past reappears in his life. This graphic novel was adapted to the cinema in a film directed by David Cronenberg, with Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris as protagonists and was nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes and the Oscar for best adapted screenplay.

Author of several novels, winner, among many others, of the award for best screenplay at the Angouleme festival, creator in recent years (and again in collaboration with Alan Grant) of series such as Rok of the Reds, in which he mixes football and criminal aliens, and responsible for many of the best-known Judge Dredd stories, for whom he still occasionally writes today, we find ourselves before someone who Warren Ellis has defined as “probably the most influential writer in the history of comics British”, a benchmark for several generations of professionals around the world. It is a luxury to have him in Avilés again, after his visit to the Jornadas del Cómic in 1997, to join us at Celsius232 in 2022.

George Salvador

Jorge Salvador Galindo (Oviedo, 1978) studied Hispanic Philology, Law and Criminology, but ended up dedicating himself fully to the publishing world. He coordinates the “Open Forum” of the Cervantes Bookstore and editor and founder of the Asturian label Pez de Plata. He has worked as an editor, proofreader and editorial reader for different national fiction agencies and labels and has collaborated, regularly or sporadically, in media such as AsturiasDiario, El Comercio, Librújula or La Escena. Together with Pep Artigas, he has published the graphic humor book CamasutraPatanegra (El Principal de los Libros, 2011) and some of his stories have appeared in different anthologies, including: Time of stories (Booket, 2008) and Impossible burials ( Stoneberg, 2009). In 2020 he published the book of humorous stories Las croquetas del Señor Keller (Eolas, 2020). He was one of the founders of the Jaseljof Cultural Association, organizer of the music-literary festival Tormenta Fest in Oviedo.

Come to XI Celsius232 to present us The Highway to Hell, the first title in the Office of Dangers series, a novel starring Djuna and Soriano, two agents of a secret organization who pose as writers as a cover, and which is an “exquisite corpse “written four hands between Jorge and Leticia Sánchez Ruiz.

Jose Antonio Cotrina

José Antonio Cotrina is a writer (or at least that is his cover), born in Vitoria. Many of you will know him from the young adult fantasy trilogy The Cycle of the Red Moon, but he has also written other things: The Secret Song of the World, The Lost Sources, The End of Dreams (with Gabriella Campbell), House on Black Hill … He also dares with science fiction (Bad streak, Going out of phase) or with the story (Between the lines) and is a fan of cats, of Clive Barker and of singing when there is no one to listen to him. In 2016 he brought to Celsius a science fiction novel, The Gates of Infinity, written in four hands with another classic, Víctor Conde, which this year was the winner of the Kelvin505 for best national young adult novel. And in 2017 he began Chronicles of the End, also in four hands, but in this case with Gabriella Campbell, and published in 2018 in a single volume. With Gabriella he has also created The Night of the Specter, the second part of The Day of the Dragon. In 2019 Lilith, the trial of the Gorgon or Salgari’s smile were reissued, in 2020 the short novel Fractal was released, and in 2021 Coda, the fourth installment of The cycle of the Red Moon. He contributes a story to the Excelsius of the XI edition of the festival, where he will tell us about his new projects.

Joseph Carlos Somoza

Spanish writer born in Cuba, he can boast of having successfully traveled through erotic literature, radio theater, crime novels, science fiction and other genres, having been equally recognized and awarded in all of them. However, it is not at all daring to say that Somoza is one of the most authoritative voices of genre literature in our country because, included in generalist collections and therefore without being limited by the usual marketing labels, his works have traveled with particular frequency far from the frontiers of realism, both in stories and novels, especially in recent years where titles such as Zig Zag, The key to the abyss, The bait, Trettameron or the stories of Paper Ghosts, have delighted readers in in general and fans of Gothic and science fiction in particular. Some titles that do nothing but add to the gallery of essential works that Somoza has left us, since he began to dedicate himself to writing in 1994, among which are La caverna de las ideas, Faded Dafne, Clara y la penumbra, La dama number thirteen or The Ivory Box. We were fortunate to have him at the third edition of Celsius 232, when he came to present The Fourth Sign, and to participate in the activities of the Children of Mary Shelley, he later returned to introduce us to Croatoan and again in 2017 as part of the Children of Mary Shelley. Since then he has published two more novels, The Origin of Evil, in which he explores one of his obsessions, the events of the past that influence our present, and the excellent Study in Black, in which he offers his personal approach to the universes of Sherlock Holmes and Lewis Carroll. He goes to Celsius232 in 2022 with The sign of the ten, a continuation of the Mr. X series that he began with his previous work.

Jose Luis Ordonez

José Luis Ordóñez (Seville, 1973) has a degree in Philology, a master’s degree in Screenwriting and is a writer, work for which he has received awards and mentions over the years. He has written and directed the short films Back Home (Manhattan Short Festival), Tarot (RTVA Award), Maternity (AZ International Film Festival) and Exorcisms (SGAE en Corto). He is the author of the plays Perversidad en la 237 (First prize XV US Literary Contest), Monsters, a terrifying dinner and The syndrome of the mechanical woman; and the radio drama The Last Supper (First Prize II Carlos Pérez Uralde Contest / EiTB Vitoria-Gasteiz Theater Festival), included in Of Humans and Other Monsters, and Dracula in Her Castle, included in Theater for a Crisis. He has written the book of stories Exorcisms and participates in Anthology of the Black Story IV (includes Love only exists in novels, winner of the VII Sixth Continent Award), Stories in 70mm and Hollywood golden years (1950). He is the author of the novels The Fantastic Story of the Vigilante and the Prisoner (Marta Portal Horror Novel Prize Award), Junior and the Ghost Letter, The Writer’s Monsters and The Oxford Street Deserters. He collaborates as a film critic in the program Gente de Andalucía (Canal Sur Radio). He goes to XI Celsius232 to present The Tuner, his most recent novel.

Juan Jacinto Munoz Rengel

Juan Jacinto Muñoz Rengel (Málaga, 1974) is the author of four novels and an extensive number of stories for which he has won more than fifty national and international awards. Since the publication of The Hypochondriac Assassin (2012), his first long work, Rengel confirmed what he had already announced in his short production, an extraordinary mastery of style and a prodigious imagination. Capable of making the most complicated seem simple, he has a great ability to draw the reader into the story and at the same time carry out a metalinguistic exercise that is a heartfelt tribute to Literature.

From the evils of the hypochondriac of his first novel, he went on in The Dream of the Other to address one of the great themes of artistic creation, establishing the border between the real and the imaginary, the oneiric and the lived. And in El gran imaginador, winner of the Kelvin505 Prize, Rengel pays homage to Cervantes and the power of fantasy in a narrative exercise that engages from the first page and in which the reader will gradually discover the hundred names of the Greek Nikolaos Popoulos while he meets the bloody countess or the golem of Prague. In 2021, Mr. Königsberg’s capacity to love was released, a new tribute to a multitude of genres starring an impassive and immutable man no matter how much the world around him changes. A new work by a great creator, which is why he will join us at the eleventh edition of Celsius232.

Kelly Robson

Kelly Robson (Canada, 1967) is an English graduate from the University of Alberta, although she grew up in the rocky mountains of her native country and competed in rodeos as a youngster. After beginning as a professional writer writing a column on wines and spirits between 2008 and 2012 for Chatelaine, one of the most important magazines in Canada, in 2015 she began publishing stories in magazines such as Clarkesworld or Asimov and in various anthologies. Her work as a short story author has been nominated for Hugo, World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Locus, Sunburst or Nebula, which she won in 2018 with A Human Stain, included in the Pulpture anthology. In 2015 she published the short historical fantasy novel The Waters of Versailles (Gigamesh), which earned her the Aurora award and being a finalist for World Fantasy and Nebula. In addition, Robson has participated, among others, in the anthology Mother tongues and other stories (Gigamesh) and is the author of Gods, monsters and the Lucky Peaches (Pulpture), a story about time travel with which she won again the Aurora and was a finalist for the Hugo, the Nebula, the Theodore Sturgeon and the Locus. In 2020, Alias ​​space and other stories, her first short story collection, was published.

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Kiran Millwood Hargrave is a British poet and novelist. She has a degree in English Literature, Dramatic Arts and Teaching from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford in 2014. She was born in London in 1990 and her debut, The Girl with Ink and Stars (Attic of Books , 2017), has won the prestigious Waterstones Children’s Book and British Book of the Year awards, and has become an international bestseller that has sold more than one hundred thousand copies in the United Kingdom and has been published in more than fifteen countries. She is also the author of La isla del fin del mundo (Atico de los Libros, 2018). Beyond Winter is her third novel.

L.X. Beckett

L.X. Beckett was born in Toronto and makes a living writing and publishing, though he wasted his youth pursuing acting and technical duties at a theater in Southern Alberta before changing course and pursuing science fiction. His first short novel, Freezing rain, a chance of falling, was published in the July/August issue of Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 2018, and is set in the same universe as his 2019 novel Gamechanger. Lex identifies as feminist, lesbian, genderqueer, and – in her alternate identity, in which she writes eco-fantasy under the name A.M. Dellamonica – She is part of a marriage completed by Kelly Robson, who also writes for a living. She loves mystery and crime stories, which she consumes insatiably, and she can be found on twitter as @LXBeckett or in the Lexicon.

Laura Fernandez

A regular collaborating journalist in numerous publications, among which the newspaper El País stands out, and one of the most authoritative voices in the press for everything related to popular genres, Laura Fernández is also one of the most interesting names in our new genre literature. , in addition to having already been published in other countries.

After Two and Two Are Five: the Cases of Manuel Molina, an anthology of black stories edited under a pseudonym, he published his first novel in Aristas Martínez, Bienvenidos a Wellcome, a science fiction comedy set in Wellcome, the center of the civilized future world that has enjoyed a second chance on the market after being very difficult to find for years.

His next two novels, including several equally interesting short works, appear in Seix Barral. First Wendolyn Kramer, in which a girl sets up a detective agency in her own room as well as being convinced of being a superhero, and then The Zombie Girl, a reflection on adolescence through its protagonist, a young woman who despite being a living dead woman tries to get on with her normal life. And these were followed by The Grossman Show about the journey that an alien teenager undertakes in pursuit of his earthly mother and Connerland, his longest novel to date and with which he enlarges his literary universe, shared by the protagonists of all his novels. .

At the end of 2021, Mrs. Potter is not exactly Santa Claus was released, a novel in which Fernández brilliantly addresses, among many other things, reading pleasure, the need for the story to define us, literature within literature… all of that and he will talk to us about more during his visit to XI Celsius232.

Laura Guerrero

Laura Guerrero is a programmer and developer of role-playing games, including Los secretos de Mundo Mágico, the Harry Potter role-playing game. Illustrated by Loremi Arts Crafts, in 2021 it earned them the Ignotus (from the Spanish Association of Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror) for Best Role Playing Game. Share with Laura Magda the YouTube channel El Castillo de las DracuLauras, dedicated to talks and interviews , seeking to make different parts of the role-playing industry visible and has collaborated with Bastión Rolero, talking about role-playing games from a social point of view. Several of her articles have been translated into French on the ptgptb portal. In addition, she is the creator of a scenario Below, among flowers and thorns, for the game Bloodstained Hands, by Vlad Temper, and has published with Shadowlands the adventure On the threshold of the forest , with a lot of Galician folklore (which he will also use for the setting of a couple more projects that will be published throughout this year. Right now he is writing a role-playing game about opera, because I love music (I am part of the Amigos de la Ópera de Vigo), in collaboration with the creative group RA Games, to which he belongs. Apart from writing, he has been part of the organization of conferences such as As portas do Hades, Hispacón or Netcon and has collaborated with Punto Xove or Abertal to organize conferences to bring the role closer to all possible audiences.

Lauren Beukes

The South African Lauren Beukes (Johannesburg, 1976) has worked as a journalist, director of documentaries, screenwriter and writer. Throughout her career she has contributed to media such as The Hollywood Reporter, Nature Medicine, Colors, The Sunday Times Lifestyle, Marie Claire, Elle, Cosmopolitan and SL Magazine, and published her first book in 2004, entitled Maverick: Extraordinary Women. from South Africa’s Past. In 2008 she made the leap to fiction with Moxyland, a cyberpunk novel narrated by four different voices in a dystopian Cape Town. With Zoo City, a work that takes place in an alternative version of Johannesburg, he won the Arthur C. Clarke in 2011, and in 2013 he published The Luminous, a novel that he brought to the second edition of the festival and in which Beukes leaves his native South Africa as the stage to transfer the story to Chicago and creates a mix between crime and fantasy novels. In Broken Monsters, from 2014, she once again presents us with a thriller in which the fantastic plays a fundamental role and in which the author continues to incorporate elements from different genres to create a story that is difficult to classify.

In addition to his work as a novelist, Beukes has written comic scripts for series such as Fairest or for the special 40th anniversary issue of the mythical British newspaper 2000 AD, he has been part of the team that developed the first animated series (in half-hour format) from South Africa and has directed a documentary titled Glitterboys and Ganglands which won the award for Best LGBT Documentary at the San Diego Black Film Festival. She returns to the festival for its eleventh edition with a recently published novel, Afterland, and is about to see the adaptation of Luminosas into an HBO series on the small screen.

Laurielle

Laurielle is a zombie who is dedicated to drawing comics. Born on a rock in the middle of the sea and transplanted to Barcelona, ​​she studied illustration at Escola Joso and hasn’t stopped since. She is the author of comics such as Diary of being at home, Short Break, Forever and Never and Nothing in the Other World. She is also a cartoonist for El Vosque since 2009, which is said soon. In Celsius232 she will tell us about her dungeons, she chooses what you draw, her short breaks, her projects and many more things

Lavie Tidhar

Lavie Tidhar (1976) was born and raised on a kibbutz to later travel the world and live in places as diverse as Laos, South Africa or Vanuatu, that small republic in the South Pacific. In 2013 she settled in the UK, from where she writes stories that defy the boundaries between genres. In 2012 she won the World Fantasy Award for her novel Osama, published in our country the following year by the RBA publishing house, and which was also nominated for the BSFA and Campbell awards. In it he begins to explore one of the subgenres in which he feels most comfortable, alternative history, something that he will continue with The Violent Century, a superpowered spy novel set in an alternative Europe. His series The Bookman has recently been reissued, in which books become weapons of mass destruction. In 2018 Central Station was published in Spain, acclaimed by specialized critics and by readers as one of the most interesting science fiction novels of that year, a candidate for the Kelvin505 awards, and in which the author showed a future Tel-Aviv full of a sense of wonder. Lavie Tidhar went to Celsius for the first time in 2016 to talk about her work as a whole, and A Man Dreams Awake, published that year in our country and which tells a story that gravitates between the thriller, the pulp novel and alternative history, and which was nominated for the main awards of the genre. Tidhar’s production is completed with Unholy Land, a Locus and Campbell nominated novel, her first children’s book Candy (2018), the novels By Force Alone, The Escapement and The Hood, and her first comic book miniseries, Adler, published between 2020 and 2021. A tireless author, Lavie has already announced the publication of two more novels, Neom and Maror. We hope that his visit to the festival this year will serve to revive the interest of Spanish publishers in his work.

Leticia Sanchez Ruiz

Leticia Sánchez Ruiz (Oviedo, 1980) is a writer, journalist and professor of narrative. She has won the 2004 Short Novel Literary Tetrade Award for The Price of Time, the IX Emilio Alarcos International Novel Award for The Firefly Books and the XVI Seville Ateneo Youth Award for The Great Game. Her novel When it’s winter in the North Sea won the 2020 Cubelles Noir Prize ex aequo and has managed to arouse the enthusiasm of critics and readers. In 2020 she published the novel The Library of Max Ventura (Pez de Plata, 2020), part of her work has been translated into Italian and since 2018 the company El Callejón del Gato has performed her play Hermanas de ella.

Come to XI Celsius232 to present us The Highway to Hell, the first title in the Office of Dangers series, a novel starring Djuna and Soriano, two agents of a secret organization who pose as writers as a cover, and which is an “exquisite corpse » written by four hands between Leticia and Jorge Salvador Galindo.

Luis Antonio Munoz

Luis Antonio Muñoz (Madrid, 1971) lives by and for music, since he is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, researcher and musical director. Announcer in the programs Por humor a la Música and Sinfonía de la Mañana, on Radio Clásica, he has also created and directed several courses such as the Hidden History of Music, Knows Opera and Knows Music.

Throughout his career, he has not only belonged to various choirs, such as RTVE, the Nacional de España and Eduardo Paniagua’s Música Antigua, but he has also directed the UNED Choir and Camerata Ultreia, with which he has also performed carried out research projects, produced concerts and organized workshops. To all this activity we must add his work as a voice coach.

Muñoz has also created compositions for films and plays, such as La Regenta, El casa del monster (a project by the Children of Mary Shelley), PIIGS or the Sirena Negra project, which was born as a musical horror monologue (and as such performed at Celsius232), ended up being made into a short film and earned Muñoz nominations at the Fimucité and Mumbay International Short Film Festivals. To all the above we must add more than thirty albums, both classical music and pop, rock and other genres, as well as educational recordings, and the very interesting book Hidden History of Music, a title that he presented at the IX Celsius232. In this work, Luis Antonio reveals many almost unknown details of the relationship between great musicians and the world of the occult, magic or secret societies. Such an interesting premise that it gave rise to a new homonymous section in the festival that will live its third installment in the eleventh edition.

Manlima

Manlima is a couple of artisans whose motto is “bringing fiction to reality” which is possible thanks to a great enthusiasm and passion for their work and challenges. They started in this hobby in 2009 but it was not until 2014 that they began to develop their skills more seriously. Today, using various techniques such as modeling and molding, airbrushing or prosthetic makeup, they manufacture and embody their favorite fictional characters, recreating any type of clothing or accessory from scratch and always seeking maximum fidelity to the character. In 2019 they created a YouTube channel where they share all the tricks and techniques about their work in endless cool tutorials where you can learn from making a silicone mold to painting with an airbrush.

Cosplay has made them travel a lot and they enjoy it to the fullest by competing both nationally and internationally, Arshan won first prize at Dreamhack summer 2017 in Sweden, he was also the winner with his Ao Kuang cosplay at the Hi- Rez Expo in Atlanta in 2018 and took second place in Switzerland at the Polymanga Global Easter Cosplay in 2019 in his Yoshimitsu outfit from the video game Soul Calibur.

Manu Carbajo

Manu Carbajo was born in Madrid in 1989, he is a director, screenwriter, producer and novelist. Co-author of the ELECTRO trilogy, he decided as a child, after seeing the movie Twister, that he wanted to be a tornado chaser. Later he realized that what he really liked was the seventh art and becoming a film director. His short films have been selected in multiple festivals, national and international, and have thousands of views on YouTube. With Welcome to the end of the world, based on a story by the writer Juan de Dios Garduño, Carbajo took an exponential leap in his career by coordinating a project of more than thirty people and directing actors such as Nacho Vigalondo, Marta Martín and JRedhead. In addition, he has also worked in advertising and has directed various music videos and participated in the anthology And then you win, a book with five stories against bullying. Once all this was done, Manu published his first solo novel, Forget about the rest, in which he deals with issues such as multiple personalities. In 2020 he brought to Avilés Letters from the desert, a novel set in the not too distant future in which the “military” is once again mandatory from the age of 16. The most conflictive kids are sent to a camp called El Desierto, where Aitor, the protagonist, meets Oriol, a boy who will change his life. Together they will have to face the secrets of the barracks. He brings to XI Celsius232 a project whose title or cover we don’t know but we know we’ll be the first to enjoy it.

Calpena Sea

Mar Calpena (Barcelona, ​​1973) is a journalist. She began to play role-playing in 1992, and was an editor at the magazine Leader (of which she would be editor-in-chief in its second stage), in which she published material for games such as The Call of Cthulhu (In Memoriam, Brighton Rock, among others) , Vampiro: la Mascarada (Barcelona by night) or Pendragón, in addition to covering current affairs and being the author of several thematic dossiers. She also created the first role-playing program on Spanish television, 39 punts de vida, on Channel 39. She also participated in the organization of Gen Con 2002, during her time as Devir’s press officer: Her work has been reissued and appeared on supplements and anthologies such as La Piel de Toro and Historias de Terror, both in Shadowlands. She spent many years without playing, but recently she has returned to the fray and has published or has projects with various publishers in the sector, such as the Hell’s Mouth module for El Sueno de Cthulhu (HT editions) and others that will see the light soon.

Sea Goizueta

In 2018, Mar Goizueta published her first novel, Queen in the World of Nightmares (Vernacci Editions), which led her to win the I Amaltea Prize for Fantasy ex aequo and to be named Chrysalis Awards as Best Emerging Author at the European Science Awards Fiction Society in 2019. From that same year are his first collection of short stories, Tales between sleep and wakefulness (Vernacci Editions) and the anthology Storm and impetus, edited by Purple ink editions. At the end of 2020, she published the anthology Where the fairies do not venture (Apache books) and in January 2021 Children of the Foundation (Apache Books / Purple Ink editions) in which she also participates. In March 2021, she published her book of short stories Welcome to the freak show, published in print with Apache Libros and in ebook and audiobook with the Danish publisher Saga Egmont (all three formats in Spanish). In April 2022, her novel Flowers for a Dead Girl was published by Dilatando Mentes, which she will present at Celsius232. In addition, throughout this same year several anthologies of which she is part of it will be released, some international.

Mary Caneda

María Caneda is part of one of the largest dubbing families in Spain. She is married to the voice actor Santi Aguirre, she is the mother of Olivia and Claudia Caneda, as well as the sister-in-law of María Jesús Martínez de Aguirre, all of whom work in the same profession. Caneda, with a career spanning more than thirty years, has given voice to some of the best-known characters from many Disney and Pixar films. From Ariel to Mulan to Jessie (in Toy Story 2), among many others, they have been lucky enough to come to life thanks to the work of Maria, but they are not the only ones. Caneda has participated in such mythical titles as Nicky the Witch’s Apprentice or Christmas Nightmare, where she gave voice to Sally.

An accomplished singer, María has not only participated in the soundtracks of the aforementioned films, but we can also hear her in the tune of a multitude of cartoon series and she even has a Spotify list in her name with almost 180,000 monthly listeners.

Maria de Sanche

María de Sancha Rojo (Madrid, 1986) has a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Carlos III University of Madrid and has completed a master’s degree in journalism from El País. As a journalist, she has worked for more than a decade in various media, including EL PAÍS, Atresmedia and ElHuffPost, for which she was a correspondent in Los Angeles (California, USA). She currently works as head of external communication in a Spanish multinational. She is also bilingual, left-handed, and passionate about horror, fantasy, science fiction, video games, and manga. A Year in Darkness is her first novel. Set in a Castilian town where, after the Napoleonic wars, one day dawns without sun and where the locals appear murdered. She will talk to us about her debut as a novelist at Celsius232.

Mariana Enriquez

Consecrated professional since the mid-1990s, not only in her country but also in Uruguay and Peru, Mariana Enríquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) is also one of the most prominent voices in genre literature in Spanish. She is a reference in Latin American cultural journalism, she collaborates both with the written press (she is, for example, editor of the cultural supplement Radar since 2004 and participates in many newspapers in South America) and on the radio. In 2004, she published her first novel, How to Disappear Completely, which was followed by several storybooks that have resulted in a very personal universe and style that have made her a unique voice. Works like The Things We Lost in the Fire or The Dangers of Smoking in Bed take horror literature in Spanish to hitherto unexplored terrain. Both collections of stories take the reader into the world of Enríquez, where she insinuates much more than what is shown. In 2017 she published the novel Este es el mar, in which some of the author’s interests converge, such as music, and always with a quality and appeal beyond any doubt. In 2019, Nuestra parte de noche extraordinary sees the light, a horror novel (and many more things) that earned it, among many other awards, the National Critics Award, the Herralde novel or our Kelvin505 in 2020. To these titles we must add the recent reissue of Bajar is the worst, her first novel, out of print for many years, and titles like The Year of the Rat, in which Mariana’s prose gives life to illustrations by Dr. Alderete. In short, we are facing one of the greatest creators of genre literature today.

Marianne Krawczyk

Marianne Krawczyk (USA, 1964) is an extraordinary screenwriter with a long career in the world of videogames, where she has been responsible for some of the most popular games in the world. After studying screenwriting at Loyola University, she worked as a production assistant on the TV series Las gemelas de Sweet Valley and on other television programs until 2005 when she premiered in the video game as co-author of dialogues for Area 51. That That same year he is in charge of writing for Sony the first installment of an already mythical series of video games: God of War. Since then, Krawczyk has been an essential figure for the success of the saga by writing the scripts for all installments of the game (and she has even participated in the writing of some of the novels and comics set in the world of Kratos). Her work on these titles has earned her a BAFTA for Best Story and Character and several WGA (Writers Guild Association) Award nominations.

But Krawczyk is also a most prolific and versatile screenwriter, with more than fifteen titles to her name, from Shank 2 or Knack 2 to collaborating on some installments of Prince of Persia and Far Cry, in games set in the universe of The Sopranos or in the adaptation of the most recent film version of Star Trek (a project in which he collaborated with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci). And her activity has not been limited to the video game, but she is also responsible for the script for the anime Appleseed: Alpha, from 2014, set in the universe of the manga created by Masamune Shirow and has been a teacher and consultant in the development of several video games. She is a true master of the script and the narrative.

Mariano Antolin Rato

Mariano Antolín Rato (Gijón, 1943) studied Philosophy and Law, has taught Spanish for foreigners, collaborated in the creation of Acto y Voz and is an extraordinary writer and translator. National Award for the work of a translator, has translated into Spanish authors such as Jack Kerouac, Douglas Coupland, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Malcom Lowry, Raymond Carver, William Faulkner, Charles Baudelaire, Jean-François Lyotard or William Burroughs, among others.

In addition, Rato was, along with Antonio Escohotado, one of the forerunners of LSD use in the 1960s in Madrid. As a novelist, in 1975 he published When 900 thousand Mach approx, a work that earned him the New Critics Award. This title was followed by many others, including De vulgari Zyklon B demonstrator, Spider World, Spanish Leather Boots, Fuga enmirrodo, No se hable más or Picudo rojo, and various awards, including Villa de Madrid for narrative, the Fernando Quiñones, the short novel Juan March Cencillo or the Crítica de Asturias. He is also the author of essays such as the one dedicated to Bob Dylan or Instruction to Zen Buddhism.

His literary activity has made Antolín Rato a reference author on the Spanish literary scene, and we are lucky that he will attend the XI Celsius232 with a new novel. This is The Supreme Luck, Rato’s foray into speculative fiction, the most recent work by one of the most innovative and original authors in Spanish literature.

Marie Lu

Marie Lu (Wuxi, China, 1984) moved with her family to Texas when she was just five years old and is one of today’s best-known and most popular American writers of children’s literature. With a degree in Political Science from the University of Southern California, Lu began her professional career as an art designer for Flash video games for Disney Interactive Studios, among other companies, but she had had ambitions of becoming a writer since she was a child. In 2011 she released Legend, a title with which she would start a trilogy (completed with Prodigy and Champion) to which Rebel would later be added, a single volume. Thanks to this saga, the first cartoon adaptations of Marie’s work were also produced, with the publication of several graphic novels that transferred the novels to comics. In addition, there are several projects to bring this series to the big screen.

Legend was followed by The Young Men of the Elite, a trilogy made up of an eponymous first installment and by The Society of the Rose and The Midnight Star, with which Marie Lu established herself as a best-selling author and a reference in Anglo-Saxon youth literature. Since then, Marie has published nearly a dozen more novels, including Batman: Nightwalker for the DC Icons line or the most recent, Skyhunter, with which she begins a new series, and we are lucky to have been able to count on all of them in Spanish.

Marina Bruno

Marina Bruno is an Asturian illustrator and graduate in Fine Arts. During her career she discovered her great passion for illustration. Drawing has always been her ally and a personal preference of hers within the arts. Marina’s style is inspired by fairy tales and folklore. Narrating from the light, her illustrations feature strong contrasts and a sometimes dreamlike appearance. Passionate about textures and the organic of painting, she seeks to mix them with the digital medium. She puts all her talent at the service of the adventures of Maya Eriksen, a work that she will tell us about, in addition to her projects, at XI Celsius232.

Miguel Martinez

Miguel Martínez (Migeru) became a fan of Saint Seiya from a very young age, when the private chains burst into Spain and revolutionized the grill. Since then, the image of Seiya and The Knights of the Zodiac remained in his retina until in 2009 he published Saint Seiya, a universe to discover, a book that sought to be a guide to the work of Masami Kurumada. Later he published a continuation of it, in which Néstor Rubio began to participate as a collaborator, who would end up working side by side with him until today. The result of this collaboration is also the third book in the collection, Saint Seiya, an expanding universe. In it, both authors focus on the new series and projects related to the work

In addition to being a writer, he was a journalist for the Asturian radio station Parpayuela Radio and director of the programs “Entre Amigos” and “El VII Día” (the latter awarded the prize for best radio program in Asturias in 2009), he has a degree in Microcomputer systems and networks; and he also works as a radio sound and control technician. He also contributes to various online publications and regional newspapers as a columnist. In the 2017 edition of the festival, he presented us with the first volume (of two) of a work dedicated to analyzing Dragon Ball (again in the company of Néstor Rubio), and in 2018 Exploring Final Fantasy, an analysis of the legend, a work of which is co-author. In 2022 he attends XI Celsius232 with the second volume of Kame Hame Ha!, the work that he dedicates to the Dragon Ball universe.

Monica Rodriguez

Born in Oviedo (1969) and resident in Madrid since 1993. She has a degree in Physical Sciences, with a Master’s in Nuclear Energy. She for fifteen years she worked in a research center. In 2009 she left her job at that center to dedicate herself entirely to Children’s and Youth Literature. He has received some awards and recognitions, including the First Prize for Young Novels from the Pozuelo de Alarcón City Council in 2007, the Asturias Critics’ Prize for Children’s and Young Adults’ Literature in the same year, the City of Malaga Prize 2010, the Ala Delta Award 2011 or the Villa de Ibi award also in 2011. In 2013, she was awarded a White Ravens for her book Esta la vida, by Edelvives, written in four hands with Gonzalo Moure and won the Leer es Vivir award from the publisher Everest with the book The girl with the snails. She was a finalist for the Barco de Vapor, Gran Angular and Edebé awards on several occasions. In 2016, she won the Anaya Award for the novel Alma y la isla, the Cuatrogatos Foundation Award for El Círculo de Robles, and the Alandar Youth Novel Award for La Partitura. She has been included in several honor lists and is one of the finalists for the 2017 Hache Youth Novel Award with the title El naranjo que se muerte de tristes, which will be decided next year by the vote of two thousand young readers.

Naomi Novick

Naomi Novik (born April 30, 1973) is an American historical fantasy writer. She is known in Spain for her Temerario saga, but above all for her book, A Dark Tale. Her first book, Her Majesty’s Dragon, won the 2007 Compton Crook Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel.1 That same year she was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. In 2016, she won the Nébula Award for Best Novel for A Dark Tale.

N. D. Stevenson

ND Stevenson (Columbia, USA, 1991) became known as “gingerhaze” on Tumblr making hipster versions of characters from The Lord of the Rings while studying at the Maryland Institute College of Art while creating his first work, a webcomic that would end up published on paper under the title Nimona and for which he won the Slate Cartoonist Studio Award for Best Webcomic, an Eisner and a Cybils, earned a Harvey nomination, entered the 100 Best Titles of the Year list The New York Times (New York Notable Book) and was a finalist for the Andre Norton Award as well as the US National Book Award, making Stevenson the youngest person to be a finalist (age 23) for the history of this award. In addition to creating 4 Wizards with Todd Casey, Stevenson is also a co-writer of the award-winning Lumberjacks, for which he has won multiple Eisners. 20th Century Fox has bought the rights to the film adaptation of Lumberjacks and Nimona will be adapted into an animated film on Netflix. Stevenson has also written screenplays for Disney’s BOOM! Studios, Marvel or DC Comics, among others.

In the world of animation, Noelle heads the executive production of one of the most popular and acclaimed series in recent years, the new version of She-Ra and the princesses of power. The series, released in 2018, has been widely accepted by critics and the public and Stevenson continues to lead it while continuing his career in the world of comics with titles such as The fire never goes out, his most intimate work till the date.

Neal Shustermann

Essays, poetry, collections of stories, non-fiction, television… a little of all this and much more adorns the prolific professional career of Neal Shusterman, an American author who, however, is mainly known throughout the world in general (and in our country in particular) for his youth fantasy works, among which he initially stood out here with Everlost, the first installment of the successful saga that would be completed with Everfound and Everwild, presenting us with a disturbing world in which the two protagonists of the story awaken after a traffic accident.

Similar success meant his next novel, Disconnection, with which he begins a trilogy where he changes fantasy for science fiction to set a utopian story in a future where parents can decide to “disconnect their children” when they are in an understood age. between 13 and 18 years old, something that the three protagonists of the story -young people of those ages- obviously do not like at all. The second part of this cycle was titled Reconnection, and Disconnection is the title of the last installment.

With Tesla’s Attic he kicked off The Accelerati Trilogy, in which some boys move into a dilapidated Victorian mansion inherited by their father, in which it turns out that the old junk stored in the attic, and the attic itself, they have certain “special properties”. This series is completed by Edison’s Bowling Alley and Hawking’s Corridor.

In Sed we find ourselves in a future in which water is scarce enough to become a very precious commodity and that leads the population to consider and do things that would have been inconceivable just before. El Arco de la Guadaña, on the other hand, is one of his most popular series in Spain. Composed of Siega, Nimbo and Thunder, Shusterman presents us with a world in which death by natural causes no longer exists and the so-called Reapers are in charge of ending the lives of those who have completed their cycle.

Also, Shusterman tells us in The Abyss the story of Caden, someone who seems to be two people at once. and that he must travel to the deepest corner of his mind to find out what is wrong with him. This stupendous novel has earned the author the National Award for Youth Literature, who not only arrives with all these works at the festival but also with the very recent Punto de Inflection.

Omar Fernandez Garcia-Jove

Omar Fernández García-Jove was born in Sotrondio, San Martín del Rey Aurelio, a small town in the middle of the mining basin of the Principality of Asturias. A resident of Gijón since early childhood, with a degree in Technical Engineering from the University of Oviedo, he has been a secondary school teacher since 2002, specializing in Technology.

In addition, Fernández García-Jove is a speaker at educational innovation courses and conferences, a national teacher trainer, a specialist in active methodologies in education, and an ambassador for the Ministry of Education’s Classroom of the Future.

An inveterate dreamer, Omar strives to make his dreams come true, and one of them has taken the form of Salgadum, the author’s first novel. Passionate about fantastic literature, in Salgadum Fernández he presents us with a narrative in the first person that he has been creating over ten summers and in which we will meet Joel, sixteen-year-old custodian of a secret that his family has kept for more than a century. saving and that will take you on a risky journey with some very special allies.

Paavo Matsin

Paavo Matsin is an Estonian writer and literary critic. Experimental writer, his first work Doktor Schwarz. Alkeemia 12 võtit appeared in 2011. His second novel was Sinine kaardivägi, followed by Gogol’s Disco, for which he won the EU Prize for Literature.

Patricia Garcia-Rojo

Patricia García Rojo (Jaén, 1984) has a degree in Hispanic Philology, teacher, poet and excellent author of novels for children and young adults. Encouraged by a friend, Patricia applied for the Andalucía Joven Award for Narrative. Winning it meant that in 2008 she was able to publish her first novel, The Créator Factory. With it, Los portals de Éldonon began a tetralogy of children’s literature, and coinciding with the publication of its latest installment, Lobo saw the light. El camino de la vendetta, also a work of youth literature with which she was a finalist for the Gran Angular award and won the Hache award. The Wide Angle won it in 2015 with El mar.

In 2016 he published the first installment of La gang de la lupa, his first foray into children’s literature and the beginning of what is (until now) a tetralogy. In addition, she Patricia has participated in This is not (only) a newspaper and in This is much more than a newspaper, where she can combine her experience as a teacher and as an author and develop educational content.

At the end of 2017 he published The eleven lives of Uría-Ha, a story of love, betrayal and revenge throughout eleven lives that was a finalist for the Kelvin505 awards in 2018. He repeated the Kelvin nomination in 2020 with I am Alexander Cuervo ( also a finalist for the Templis awards) and won the City of Malaga Award for Children’s Narrative with El secreto de Olga in 2019. She attended the festival in 2021 after winning the Kelvin505 award for best young adult novel in Spanish with El assassin de Alfas, and since then he has published two installments of a new series of children’s literature, The Mystery Slayers, he has published the novel The Last Street in Copenhagen, he has seen the reissue of his award-winning novel Lobo, he has seen a story published in the British market thanks to Spansion! and has participated in this year’s Excelsius.

Paul Tremblay

Paul Tremblay (Colorado 1971) was born and raised in Massachusetts. With a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Providence College in Rhode Island and a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Vermont, Tremblay served as a basketball teacher and coach while writing his first novels. With the disturbing A Head Full of Ghosts, in which he mixes reality television and exorcisms, he won the Bram Stoker Award in 2015, awarded by the United States Horror Writers Association. In 2016 he saw the light Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, and in 2018 The Cabin at the End of the World, with which he became Bram Stoker again.

In addition, Tremblay has several more novels that have not yet been published in Spain, several of his works are in the process of being adapted for film, and he is editor and jury member of the Shirley Jackson Awards.

Paula Peralta

Paula Peralta Pozanco, (Lleida, 1996) is a graduate in Audiovisual Communication and had the desire to become a novelist from a very young age. She began literary creation with Café, which received the Anaya Literary Creation Award in 2014. Two stories followed: Raíces (La Matanza del Cerdo, Onyx, 2019) and How to Light a Match (Lektu, 2020). With the first part of On Gods and Gluttony (Lektu, 2020), a youthful slasher saga, she plunged headlong into terror, a genre that she also cultivated in her next publication, the novel Ariadna and Dead Possibilities (Copelia Ediciones, 2021 ). Although she is not disgusted by anything and with The lucky ones (VR YA, 2022), her latest work, four-handed with Clara Cortés, tackles the lgtbi romantic genre. After two and a half years of the pandemic, this is the first time that she can visit the Celsius Festival.

Pedro Ramos

Pedro Ramos (Madrid, 1973) has been an inveterate reader since his earliest childhood, a geologist by training, he has worked, among other things, as a concierge, bellboy, stocker, clerk, participant in three oceanographic campaigns at BIO Hespérides, graphic designer, publicist, director from the Polisemias writing school, coordinator and presenter of the Libros en direct cycle, director of the Coruña Mayúscula Festival, scriptwriter for TVG of some episodes of the series As leis de Celavella and Libro de Familia, is responsible for the feature-length documentary Tolos por Xapón and writer .

He has published the novels Masculine singular (2006), Everything is a lie, the easy life of Bernard Madoff (2014), The Beach of Crystals (2017), The Kiss Collector (2018), Three thousand nights with Marga (2018), Raúl y la luz azul (2020), Héroes (2021), the collection of poems Elpaísdelosméritos (2011) and the video poem Lugares comunes that was a finalist at the Cosmopoética Festival in Córdoba. He has also participated in international poetry festivals such as ARS AMANDI in Panama and ARTEFACTO in Logroño. In 2013 he presented Texts Appropriate, a multimedia show where he mixes word, music and image from texts by Cortázar, Poe, Follonosa, Gil de Biedma, Galeano and Panero among others and in 2019 he received the Los Inmortales Award for his work El Coleccionista de Kisses.

He is going to this year’s Celsius232 festival as the winner of the XXX Edebé Prize for Young People’s Literature with Un ewok in the garden to tell us about his work and experiences.

Rafael Marin

Rafael Marín (Cádiz, 1959) is a professor, writer, translator, screenwriter and comic book theorist. He has published more than thirty books in various genres: Tears of Light and World of Gods in Science Fiction; The Legend of the Navigator in epic fantasy; The masked city, Ora Pro Nobis and Memento Mori in terror; Unlicensed Detective, Canvas of Darkness, Elemental Wanted Chaplin in Police; The ring in the water and The boy from Samarkand in biographical memory; The bells of Almanzor, Juglar, Victoria and Don Juan in the historical novel.

He is the author of anthologies such as Headless Unicorns, The Stone Centaur, Ghost Skin or Stone Son and other stories. His essay books include Hal Foster: A Post-Romantic Epic; W from Watchmen and Marvel: Chronicle of an era. He has written the comic series Iberia Inc and Triada Vértice for the Spanish market and Fantastic Four and The Inhumans for Marvel Comics. Marín cultivates a lyrical and precious style where each word evokes music and aromas. Elsinore is his new novel.

Rachel Brown

Raquel Brune (Madrid, 1994) studied Advertising and Public Relations and Business Administration before discovering that what she was really passionate about was communication. Since 2015 she has combined writing with her activity on social networks. After creating an account about books on Instagram in 2015, in 2016 she uploaded the first video of her on a YouTube channel talking about reading and books and today she has more than 600,000 followers. In 2017 he participates in the anthology Cuentos sonoros with the story Our Song, and in 2018 he self-publishes a collection of poems entitled El Diario Inconstante, which is followed in 2019 by Brujas y Necromantes, the first installment of a homonymous trilogy of urban fantasy and completed with Brotherhood and Rituals and balance. In 2021 she saw the light The gifts of death, the first part of a new bilogy completed in 2022. This same year she publishes The guardians of souls, a self-conclusive novel that reinterprets the myth of Don Juan Tenorio today. We will talk with her about her works, her work as a communicator and her new projects at XI Celsius232.

Rodolfo Martinez

l by Rodolfo (Rudy) Martínez has been, for years, one of the reference names in genre literature in Spain. He published his first story in 1987 and since the beginning of his literary career his production has been characterized by the mixture of registers and references to the point of making his works difficult to classify. This heterogeneity, however, has not been an obstacle for Rudy to win the Minotauro award with Los sicarios del cielo (now in Sportula as Este uncomfortable ropaje) or the Asturias de Novela, the UPV de fantastic story and, on several occasions, the Ignotus (in its novel, novella and short story categories). His hands have produced everything from Holmesian tributes to an essay on Isaac Asimov, the City saga and also a series of novels starring Yaxtor Brandan, one of his most popular characters and consisting of three titles: The Queen’s Adept, The Jardín de la Memoria (both written by him alone) and Los Rostros del Pasto, created by four hands with Felicidad Martínez. Loaded, a compilation of his best short stories. In 2019, Martínez attended the festival to tell us about his forays into the world of Conan the Barbarian, and in 2022 he returns after having published the beginning of his tetralogy The Hollow at the End of the World, whose first installment is titled La simiente de la splinter and which continues in The green between the shadows and in The whens of now. Of that, of his relationship with the universe of Robert E. Howard, of the volume with most of the production of his stories and more we will talk about in XI Celsius232.

Rodolfo Santullo

Rodolfo Santullo (Mexico City, 1979) was born in Mexico, but when he was very young he moved to Montevideo and has since lived in Uruguay. Santullo has worked as a journalist for media such as Postdata, La República, Brecha or La Diaria, as a comic book editor for the Belerofonte Group, as a comic book writer for titles such as Dengue (2012) or The Last Days of Graf Spee (2008; 2013). , both with drawings by Matías Bergara; El oro del Czar (illustrated by Marcos Vergara, 2015) or Zitarrosa (illustrated by Max Aguirre, 2012) and he also has a brilliant literary career. He began as a writer with Perro come perro, a book of short stories, in 2006. In 2008, the novel Las otros caras del verano came to light, written in four hands with Martín Betancor, an author with whom he would collaborate again in that old tango, in 2011. Alone, he has published, among others, the novels Cementerio norte (2009), Envelopes paper manila (2010), The Last Goodbye (2013) or Matufia, a novel with which he won the National Award in Uruguay. A great narrator who travels between different genres, Santullo arrives at XI Celsius232 with a new title in our country under his arm, The King’s Hunters.

Rose Gil

Rosa Gil (Madrid, 1975) was born in Madrid, grew up in Cádiz and studied journalism at the University of Navarra. She has worked as a journalist for Historia 16, El Mundo or MujerHoy, among other media, as well as as a freelance reporter for newspapers such as Woman or Eldiario.es. In addition, Gil is a scriptwriter for the children’s programs We learn in clan, the debate, for Clan TV on RTVE. To this professional activity must be added her work as a writer. After publishing the children’s work Bruno Dhampiro in 2008, with illustrations by Fernando Vicente, Gil arrives at XI Celsius232 with The World Needs Delirium, a novel starring a superheroine with balance tights and erratic flights that we want to know more about.

Rose Orchards

Rosa Huertas (Madrid, 1960) has a degree in journalism, Hispanic philology and a doctorate in Information Sciences. She has worked as a language and literature teacher in secondary education and published her first book, an essay titled Popular Tales and Creativity, in 2006. Her first work of fiction, Mala luna, was published in 2009 and earned her the Hache Prize for literature. juvenile, and since then it has maintained an extraordinary production rate and always with an excellent level of quality. In 2010 she published Ella Tuerto, cursed and in love, with which she won the Alandar award (also for juvenile literature). To these distinctions have been added the Ciudad de Cartagena of historical novel, the Anaya or the Azagal among others.

Most of his production is set (and uses characters from) some of his favorite historical periods, from the Golden Age to the Generation of 27 and mixes reality and fiction in stories that speak of the past and the present. In 2019 she published her first non-juvenile novel, Women who read, and in 2021 she published The time they stole from us. In addition, she has participated in collective, didactic works and written story books. He goes to Celsius in 2022 with Dissidents, his first science fiction novel.

Rush Smith

Rush Smith is the stage name of a narrator who is also a youtuber/vlogger/musician. Although he was born in El Prat de Llobregat in 1986, he has lived in Madrid for years and has shared a flat there with other Youtubers. Part of his activity on the networks and his love for literature has crystallized in a beautiful multimedia project called The boy who forgot to sleep. Rush, who also sometimes goes by the name of Jaume, tells us in several stories part of the story of Ethan Moore. They are independent stories that seek to create moments, situations and characters that are uncomfortable, and that are accompanied by beautiful illustrations by Adolfo Serra that fit that goal like a glove. But the stories collected in The boy who forgot to sleep have a certain tendency to escape from the printed page and have taken the form of an animated song/video in which Rush himself sings (you can see it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryWVEPVczsA) and has served as an inspiration for a terrifying short called La Vieja (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5LNnWVFfIc)As you can see Rush is, as we told you, a true off-road narrator who easily masters a wide variety of languages ​​and formats. And not only that, but his YouTube channel for adults (he also has a children’s one) has more than 330,000 followers and on it he addresses all kinds of topics, from which is the worst of the confirmed movies for 2017 to interviews with some of the candidates for the presidency of the government in the general elections.

Sandra Jara

Sandra García Jara, better known as Sandra Jara, is part of one of the great dubbing families in Spain. Daughter of the actress and dubbing director Amelia Jara and sister of Iván Jara, who also lends her voice to many characters, Sandra began her career in 1986 and has not stopped working since then. A regular in some of the most popular television series in our country since the 1990s (it is not for nothing that she has been Michelle Tanner in Forced Parents or Ashley Banks in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air), Sandra has extensive experience in dubbing animation . Tatsuki, the eldest of the protagonist sisters of My Neighbor Totoro is one of the many characters that Jara has brought to life, but the list also includes such popular characters as Tommy Pickles, one of the protagonists of Rugrats or the extraordinary Vanellope von Schweetz, the charismatic co-star of the Wreck-It Ralph movies. In addition, Sandra has also participated in many video games and movies (for example in Beasts of the Southern Wild, where she lent her voice to Quvenzhené Wallis, the youngest actress nominated for an Oscar). A luxury to have her at the Dubbing Conference, organized by the OCEN Association within the framework of Celsius232.

Sergio S. Moran

Sergio Morán (Reus, 1984, although raised in Asturias) began posting his comics on the internet when few people still used the term webcomic, among others with El Vosque, which he made with Laurielle. In parallel, Morán began to collaborate in the magazine El Jueves, although he abandoned it to embark with them on Pride and Satisfaction. And meanwhile, Morán surprised locals and strangers with his first novel, The murdered god in the men’s bathroom, in which he displays an extraordinary sense of humor and with which he began the adventures of Verónica Guerra, alias Parabellum, continued in The dead do not pay VAT and in The soul is sold (for not being able to attend), a title that earned him the Ignotus for Best national novel in 2021. This series was joined by a game book, Death is thrown, and El lingotazo, novel humorous with steampunk touches. It will arrive at Celsius232 with two novelties fresh off the press (literally) and also financed by crowdfunding: Once upon a fucking time and Sister Herminia’s stories, incursions into a universe where fairy tales and drug trafficking converge that could only come out of a mind with as talented as Sergio’s.

Silvia Aliaga

Silvia Aliaga met Tatiana Marco in a literary forum, and together they have written a trilogy set in the K-pop phenomenon: From Seoul to Heaven (Nocturna, 2018), Lights in the Sky (Nocturna, 2019) and Stars over Seoul (Nocturna , 2020). Later, Silvia ventured into writing alone with Los Jardines del Agua (DNX Libros, 2021).

He will soon publish his latest novel, The Nanking Road Irregulars (Nighttime, 2022): a mystery novel set in the Sherlock Holmes universe and paying homage to the famous detective.

Skull Caramel

Content creator who started in the world of cosplay through makeup. In 2018, she began to share makeup inspired by anime, manga, and video game characters on networks, making props for them, which led her to end up characterizing herself as said characters. She comes to Celsius232 to participate in our cosplay section and share her makeup knowledge.

sofia rhei

Sofía Rhei (Madrid, 1978) began her career as an author in 2005 with the collection of poems Las flores de Alcohol, which was followed by Química in 2007, Otra Explanación para el Temblor de las Hojas in 2008 and Alicia Volátil in 2010. From this work Sofía writes children’s or youth novels, mostly with protagonists from other texts. Thus, we find in several novels with the young Moriarty, the boy who would become the nemesis of Sherlock Holmes, with Olivia Shakespeare, or with the Mozart brothers. In Reversible Cities, Rhei presents her personal vision of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Sofia’s list of works now exceeds thirty titles, and her great capacity for work is only matched by the enormous quality of her creations. In 2017 alone she published four works, most notably Róndola, her first adult novel (Kelvin 505 Award nominee), in which the author gives her very personal and unique take on fairy tales. In 2018 she participated in several anthologies, published a short novel (Oculi Arboris), a long novel (The deep forest, Wait for me on the last page)… And in 2019, in addition to enjoying her literary production, we were lucky to have her in various acts of the festival. In 2020 she presented at the Ireland without you festival, a novel written in four hands with Susana Vallejo. She won the Kelvin505 award at the 10th edition of the festival with her novel Newropia and this year she will join us again to tell us about her novelties and once again give some of her masterful workshops and carry out different presentations between other things.

Stark Holborn

Stark Holborn lives in Bristol, has worked as a video game writer, doing occasional movie reviews, and as a novelist. His first published work of his was the innovative digital serial Nunslinger, a title that was uploaded chapter by chapter on the Internet. Nunslinger was followed by the series Lead squared (Triggernometry), and with Ten Low Holborn he has made the leap into science fiction. Stark’s work has been nominated for the British Fantasy Awards, the BSFA Awards and the New Media Writing Award. In addition, Holborn has written for the BBC, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim on TIGA-winning game projects and is a lead writer on Shadows of doubt, an upcoming sci-fi detective game.

Stephen Graham-Jones

Stephen Graham Jones (Midland, Texas, USA, 1972) has a degree in Philosophy and a doctorate in English Philology, as well as a prolific author of works of horror, experimental fiction, crime novels and science fiction. While pursuing his doctorate, the director of his project introduced him to the publisher Jane Silver, to whom Jones presented the plot of a novel that he had not yet written and that ended up becoming first an academic project and later seeing the light as his first work. , with the title The fast red road in the year 2000.

Since then, Graham Jones has published over thirty novels, several novellas, and a few comic book scripts. In addition, he has won, among many others, three Bram Stoker awards, two Shirley Jackon awards, five This is Horror awards and has been a finalist for the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Awards. Passionate about werewolves, slashers, basketball and trucks, Graham Jones has also taught at institutions such as the University of Boulder, the University of California Riverside and (although more occasionally, the Institute of American Indian Arts. Member of the Blackfoot tribe, so far only two novels by Stephen Graham Jones have been published in Spain, Mestizos and The Only Good Indian.In them are found some of the constants of the rest of the author’s work, from the desire to put upside down the world he knows to an excellent mastery of genres and literary resources through the will to reflect the reality that surrounds him and, of course, werewolves.A true master of terror who will accompany us for the first time in the XI Celsius232 .

Tamsyn Muir

Tamsyn Muir was born in New South Wales, Australia, in 1985 but grew up in New Zealand from early childhood. A graduate of the equivalent of Teaching, Muir also participated in the 2010 Clarion Workshop, a six-week seminar for aspiring genre writers.

In 2015 his short story The deepwater bride was nominated for the Nebula, the World Fantasy Award, the Eugie and the Shirley Jackson. In 2019 he published Gideon La Novena, the first installment of the Sealed Tomb trilogy, a novel with which he won the Locus for Best First Novel and the Crawford Award, as well as being a finalist for the Nebula and Hugo for Best novel. In Gideon the Ninth we learn that the Emperor needs necromancers, the necromancer of the Ninth needs a swordswoman, and Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no patience for undead nonsense. And also that the Emperor has invited the heirs of each of his loyal houses to a deadly test that will test their intelligence and his abilities.

Harrow la Novena, the second title in the series, will be published in the fall of 2021 in Spain, and in 2022 the saga will close with Alecto la Novena. The series will be complete in Spanish by the time Muir visits Avilés, in July 2022.

Following this trilogy set in a solar system of sword fights, cutthroat politicking, and lesbian necromancers, Muir plans to publish a new trilogy of cyberpunk/Western-themed novellas.

Tatiana Delgado

Tatiana Delgado is one of the reference names in the world of video games in Spain. A professional with more than twenty years of experience, Delgado started in this industry at the independent studio Rebel Act Studios working as a game, environment and narrative designer for an asymmetric multiplayer RPG game and designing levels and script for “Ultimate Blade”, the version of Blade: the Edge of Darkness for X-Box. From then on, Delgado worked for Enigma Software as a level designer, for AKQA as a game designer, a role that she also assumed in Zinkia and in titles such as Pocoyo Racing or Hello Pocoyo for different Nintendo platforms, in addition to designing mobile game concepts. , Flash or PSP among others.

Tatiana has been game director and senior designer for Tequila Works, has designed gamification experiences for educational purposes, business motivation and marketing among other purposes for Frequentia, has worked for Gameloft and King, has been co-founder and design director of the Vertical studio Robot and is also co-founder of Out of the Blue Games, a company focused on narrative and puzzle-type video games and that published the wonderful Call of the Sea at the end of 2020. In 2021 her career earned her the first CIMA Games award, granted by the Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media (CIMA) within the framework of our festival. A true number one who knows the video game industry inside out and with whom we will talk at length at XI Celsius232.

Thomas Son

Tomás Hijo (Salamanca, ) is a university professor in Salamanca and one of the best illustrators of the fantastic today. A freelance professional since 1997, Son has published more than seventy books (some of them written by him) and edited in countries such as Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, Iran and China, among others. Editorial advisor for Tatanka Books, Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the Pontifical University of Salamanca with a thesis entitled Fairy tales according to Walt Disney, assistant professor and head of the Illustration course at the same university. Tomás has also won the award for best illustration from the Tolkien Society in 2015 and is a regular presence in European and North American galleries. He has also collaborated with Guillermo del Toro in the creation of the Tarot del Toro and as a prop designer for The Alley of Nightmares, by the Mexican director. The Labyrinth Tarot is also his work, supervised and licensed by The Jim Henson Company, the storyboard for Contestant, by director Rodrigo Cortés or some of the illustrations for Cuarto Milenio or Les portes du temps or Stranger Things merchandising. A true reference in world illustration that we have the luxury of counting on at the XI Celsius232.

Vanessa R. Migliore

Vanessa R. Migliore is a writer, journalist, and social media content creator. With experience in the design and development of strategies and online presence for several brands, Vanessa is known on the internet as Iris de Asomo. Her YouTube channel, with more than 70,000 followers, is a point of reference for many fans of reading and writing, and she also has a significant presence on Twitter and Instagram. In addition, Migliore combines this activity with literary creation. Vanessa self-published her first novel, The Shadow Guild, and several more have followed this title. In 2019 she wins the III Editorial Oz Novel Prize with the novel The Awakening of the Witches, and in 2020 she arrives at Lunas de Sartre bookstores. She goes to Celsius232 in 2022 with Ciudad de la muerte, published by Puck Editorial.

Victor Count

The name of Víctor Conde, who is actually called Alfredo Moreno Santana and was born in Tenerife in 1973, is one of the most prominent in genre literature in Spain in the last fifteen years. He began as a novelist in 2002 with the publication of three titles in one year (Piscis de Zhintra, Piscis Arena -these two form a saga- and The Third Name of the Emperor, recently updated), in 2005 he got the first of his nominations with Mystes to the Minotauro award, and repeated in 2008 with El Teatro Secreto.Versatile writer, capable of going from science fiction to horror and from these to children’s and youth novels, Conde and won the third Minotaur with his Chronicles of the Multiverse, also awarded with Ignotus in 2010. That same year, El Libro de las Almas, Los Relojes de Arestes and Heraldos de la Luz were also released, and from then on Conde’s production accelerated and he published more than a dozen works in the following five years. Conde has offered us his personal vision of classic monsters, such as the zombie in Still Life, the werewolves in Daughter of Wolves, the sirens in I have heard the seas scream my name, the witches in The Witches’ Codex or, De the cities your tombs, their approach to the vampires. In addition to all this, Víctor has won (with José Antonio Cotrina) the Kelvin 505 for the best national youth novel with Las Puertas del Infinito. In 2019 he brought to Celsius232 two new novels, Lívidos, written in four hands with Raúl Silvestre and in which he continues his review of monsters, and Imperio, a new installment of his Chronicles of the Multiverse. And, a tireless creator, in 2020 he brought to the festival a new version of his Pisces from Zhintra. In 2021 he went to Celsius232 with En El beso de Copacati, a new version of classic monsters, in this case the monster from the black lagoon and in 2022 he brings Paramorfo, a new installment of these versions, and the reissue of the Chronicles of the Multiverse.