The Barcelona native conquers children from all over the globe with stories about the lives of real people published in thirty languages and in 86 countries.

The lives of real characters are beginning to win over the fictions of princesses and heroes in the literary world aimed at younger children. The biographies of figures such as Jane Goodall and Federico García Lorca converted into illustrated stories by the Barcelona writer María Isabel Sánchez Vegara, with the help of cartoonists from around the world, have become one of the most successful global publishing phenomena in recent years.

She is the most translated living Spanish author: since 2014 she has sold more than nine million books in more than 30 languages and in 86 countries, featuring characters such as Frida Kahlo, Clara Campoamor, Albert Einstein, Pina Bausch, Anne Frank, Charles Dickens, Rafa Nadal...

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