The writer of children and young adult books and professor from A Coruña, Miguel López, “El Hematocrítico,” died this Monday afternoon as confirmed by sources close to him. He was 47 years old.

The author, who was very active on social networks, was at his home with his partner, the writer and lawyer Ledicia Costas, in Navia (Vigo) when he suffered a heart attack. Attempts to revive him were unsuccessful and he died shortly afterwards.

“El Hematocrítico,” who admitted in an interview in La Opinión de A Coruña, from the Prensa Ibérica group, in 2020 that he perceived himself "as different from others" because when he was a child he liked "things that were not most important to the majority in his class," was a teacher of Primary Education and, English at Las Esclavas school in A Coruña. Some of his books are adaptations of traditional children's stories. In 2021 he started the series of the character “Max Burbuja,” to whom the cartoonist and collaborator of this newspaper, Santy Gutiérrez, gave life.

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