Nikolái Leskovwas a Russian journalist, novelist, and short story writer.Sara Gutiérrezis a translator.Care Santos is an author and literary critic. Javier Herrerois an illustrator.
Robert Chandlerhas translated Sappho, Apollinaire, and Pushkin.
Gilbert Adair was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on December 29, 1944. He wrote numerous books during his lifetime including A Night at the Pictures, Myths and Memories, Hollywood's Vietnam, Flickers, and Surfing the Zeitgeist. His novels, Love and Death on Long Island and The Dreamers, were adapted into films, the later by Adair himself. He also helped write the screenplays The Territory, Klimt, and A Closed Book. He won the Author's Club First Novel Award for The Holy Innocents in 1988 and the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for his book A Void in 1995. During the 1990s, he wrote a regular column for the Sunday Times. He died in early December 2011at the age of 66.