JAVIER RIVERO GRANDOSO

Javier Rivero Grandoso is Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of La Laguna. He is a specialist in crime novels, a subject on which he has given several lectures and conferences at European and American universities. He has published numerous articles on the work of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Alexis Ravelo, Agatha Christie, Rafael Reig, Maria Antònia Oliver, etc.

He prepared the notes to the Italian edition of “Libro de poemas”, by Federico García Lorca, translated by Valerio Nardoni and edited a monograph on the crime novel in the journal La Página, the volumes Ciudades mito and Reflejos de la ciudad in the Peter Lang publishing house, the book La ciudad hostil in the Síntesis publishing house and the poetic work of the Canarian author Julián Herraiz under the title La mentira del agua and Alfabeto celoso.

He is also a specialist in Canarian literature and has edited the complete works of Julián Herraiz and Un verano en Tenerife by Dulce María Loynaz.

Director of the Antonio Lozano Cultural Chair of Criminal Genre and of the Tenerife Noir International Seminar for Research in the Noir Genre, which is held every year in March in Tenerife.

JOSÉ LUIS CORREA

He is a lecturer in Language and Literature Didactics at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and a writer. In his teaching facet, his lines of research revolve around the teaching of written language and literature for young people.

As for his literary perspective, Correa’s most significant contribution to the Spanish literary scene has to do with the creation of a character who is already part of the imaginary of the modern crime novel: Ricardo Blanco.

His saga begins with Quince días de noviembre (2003) and continues with Muerte en abril (2004), Muerte de un violinista (2006), Un rastro de sirena (2009), Nuestra Señora de la Luna (2012), Blue Christmas (2013), El verano que murió Chabela (2014), Mientras seamos jóvenes (2015), El detective nostálgico (2017), La noche en que se odiaron dos colores (2019) and Las dos Amelias (2020), all published in Alba’s Novela Negra collection. His work has been translated into several languages (German, Finnish, Italian) and enjoys great success among Northern European readers, so fond of crime novels.

MIGUEL AGUERRALDE

Miguel Aguerralde Movellán, resident in Lanzarote, is a primary school teacher and Spanish writer of novels and short stories, usually framed within the crime or noir genre, although his best-known works are part of the so-called thriller of suspense and horror. He has also worked on romantic novels and even children’s and young people’s literature. The author of more than twenty novels, he stands out as one of the leading figures on the current scene of genre literature in our country.

Within the suspense or thriller genre, he has published:

• “Claro de Luna” 2009 and “Noctámbulo” 2010, by Idea publisher.
• “Los Ojos de Dios” 2010 by 23 Escalones publisher.
• “Última parada: la casa de muñecas” 2012 by 23 Escalones publisher.
• The first two novels of his referential character Matt el Rojo, “Alicia” 2016 (Cazador publisher). It was the winner of the 2017 Ultratumba Prize for best novel.
• “Despiértame para verte morir” 2018 (Cazador publisher).

On 1 April 2021 Miguel Aguerralde presented “Última Parada” to the public. The publishing house Cazador reissues the original 2012 novel, “Última parada: la casa de muñecas”, and accompanies it with the short novel “No podrás salir”, and two unpublished stories, “Club Poe” and “El lamento de los vivos”, in which Red Matt is also the protagonist.

This year he is going to present “El Jardín Secreto”, his last book.

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