Antonio Iturbe lives in Spain, where he is both a novelist and a journalist. He is the author of The Prince of the Skies and The Librarian of Auschwitz , for which he interviewed Dita Kraus, the real-life librarian of Auschwitz. Salva Rubio is a Spanish author and historian. His credits include the graphic novels Monet: Itinerant of Light and The Photographer of Mauthausen . Loreto Aroca is a Spanish artist and a graduate of the University of Castilla-La Mancha. She previously won the school's Luna de Aire Award, honoring the best poetry aimed at children, for her and Fran Pintadera's book Portrait of the Pinzón Family (Retrato de la familia Pinzón) . Lilit zekulin Thwaites is an award-winning Melbourne-based literary translator (Spanish>English). Her book-length translations include the bestselling The Librarian of Auschwitz (Antonio Iturbe, 2017), Australian Connection (multiple authors, 2019), and two futuristic novels by Rosa Montero, Tears in Rain (2012), and Weight of the Heart .
(2016). In 2016, she was awarded Spain's Order of Civil Merit for her promotion of Spanish culture in Australia.