María Esther Gilio is a lawyer and journalist. She began her career at Marcha magazine and other publications in Montevideo. Her reports, published in magazines and newspapers around the world, have earned her numerous awards. She has contributed to, among others, L’Express in Paris, Il Manifesto in Italy, O Pasquim in Rio de Janeiro, El Nacional and El Universal in Caracas, El Periodista in Buenos Aires, the newspapers Clarín and Página 12, Acción, Humor, and El Porteño. She is the author of several books, including: Protagonistas y sobrevivientes (1969), La guerrilla tupamara (1970), which won the Casa de las Américas Prize, Personas y personajes (1973), Largo diálogo con Wilson Ferreira Aldunate (1984), La vida de Juan Carlos Onetti (in collaboration with Carlos María Domínguez, 1993), Aníbal Troilo. Pichuco (1998), Pepe Mujica. From Tupamaro to Minister (2005), Aurelio, the Photographer (2006), among others. She directs the Vidas rebeldes collection for Editorial Trilce.
Carlos María Domínguez began his career as a journalist at the Buenos Aires magazine Crisis, where he served as editorial secretary and editorial director. He was editor-in-chief of Brecha, in charge of the literary pages of Búsqueda, and a contributor to Brecha and El País Cultural. His novel La casa de papel (2002) won national and international awards and has been translated into twenty languages. Among others, he wrote La mujer hablada (1995, Bartolomé Hidalgo Award), El bastardo. La vida de Roberto de las Carreras y su madre Clara (1997), Una joya por cada rata. Memoria de un asaltante de bancos (2001, in collaboration with Darío Giró), La rebelión de la ternura (2001), Escritos en el agua (2002, Ministry of Education and Culture Award), El norte profundo (2004), and Las Puertas de la tierra (2007).