Over where there is no literature, where paper is an impossibility and tales have no place to rest, the voice is the only medium for bringing stories to life.

Ana Cristina Herreros is the creator of Libros de las Malas Compañías (Bad Company Books), a small publisher that rescues lost tales from small communities in other countries to publish them in collections, the profits from which are then reinvested in cultural projects back home.

Ana Griott is the main character, who acts as a voice for the voiceless, the rescuer of the oral traditions of forgotten communities 3,000 miles away in Africa, in the Baltic or in rural Galicia. The weaver of the family tree of monsters, witches, fables, and popular fairy tale characters from near and far. But Ana Griott is also the alter ego of Ana Cristina Herreros (León, 1965), publisher, entrepreneur, linguist, seeker of stories and whimsy, and the creator of Libros de las Malas Compañías (Bad Company Books), a small publishing house founded in 2014 which, basically, publishes whatever it wants “without paying heed to the market and without printing in China,” she reminds us. Ana doesn’t have a story and at the same time, she has them all.

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