Pablo De Santis was born in Buenos Aires, studied literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and subsequently worked as a journalist and comic-strip creator, becoming editor-in-chief of one of Argentina's leading comic magazines. Most recently, De Santis won the inaugural Premio Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa prize for best Latin American novel for The Paris Enigma.

Mempo Giardinelli: Born in Resistencia, Chaco (1947). Rómulo Gallegos Award winner (1993) is one of the renowned argentine writers. He founded and edited Puro cuento magazine (1986-92) and taught at Universidad Iberoamericana (México), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina), and in the US at Wellesley College, University of Virginia, University of Louisville, Gettysburg College, and Florida State University. He has published short stories; essays as El género negro; and several novels: Luna caliente, El cielo con las manos, Santo Oficio de la Memoria, Imposible equilibrio and Final de Novela en Patagonia. His latest novels: Cuestiones interiores and Visitas después de hora.

Liliana Heker was born in 1943 in Buenos Aires.  In Argentina, this versatile author is known not only through her numerous novels and shorter narratives, but also through being a socially committed journalist.  As chief editor of the literary periodicals 'El escarabajo de oro' (1961-1974) and 'El Ornitorrinco' (1977-1986) she has influenced in a decisive way the literary life of her home country for over twenty years.

Liliana Heker’s career began extraordinarily early.  At the age of just 17 she met Abelardo Castillo, writer and chief editor of the literary periodical 'El grillo de papel', who introduced her as an editor of the magazine.  In 1966 she published her first collection of short narratives, 'Los que vieron la zarza', for which she received the prize of the Cuban 'Casa de las Américans'.  In subsequent years further collections appeared: 'Acuario' (1972) and 'Un resplandor que se acabó en el mundo'.  In 1987 her first novel 'Zona de clivaje' was published, for which Liliana Heker was awarded the 'Primer Premio Municipal'.

Perla Suez. Writer and professor of Letras Modernas at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. She has been  a fellow of both the French and Canadian governments. In 1997 she received la Mención  Especial del Premio Mundial de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil José Martí  for the entirety of her work. In 2000, she was a finalist for Premio APEL les Mestres awarded by Editorial Destino in Barcelona, Spain.  Suez was member of the jury for the Premio Internacional de Literatura Juvenil Octogonal in Paris, France. In 2000 she published Letargo, in 2001 El arresto and in 2004 Complot.  These three novels were published by the Grupo Editorial Norma, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and all three will be published in English in one volume under the title: The Entre Ríos Trilogy, University of Mexico Press.

Ana María Shúa was born in Buenos Aires in 1951. She studies in the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where she received her masters in arts and literature. and today is one of the most outstanding writers of Argentine literature. Her first novel, Soy Paciente, followed a long list of titles, among which stand out the novel Los Amores de Laurita (1984) and her books of short stories: La sueñera, Viajando se conoce gente y Casa de Geishas. Some of her works have been adapted for the screen and she also has been recognized as an author of children's literature (La fábrica del Terror y La puerta para salir del mundo, among other titles). She has published varios books related to Jewish traditions: Risas y emociones de la cocina judía , Cuentos judíos con fantasmas y demonios y El pueblo de los tontos. Her work is translated into several languages and in 1993 she received a Guggenheim grant to work on her novel El libro de los recuerdos. Her most recent works are: Temporada de Fantasmas y Botánica del caos.