Authors Lola Canales

From her origins in the Madrid neighborhood of Puente de Toledo, Lola Canales, mother, teacher, Anthropology graduate, piano teacher, actor en Castañuela 70 was convicted of military rebellion in 1969 and worked as a maid in a stately home in Paris during her exile in the mid 70s.  She spent her free time from her domestic employee services studying Ethnology under the tutelage of Lévi-Strauss in the Sorbonne and got to know María Casares, Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, Costa-Gavras... With such a surreal curriculum, she became a journalist in 1980, after publishing around twenty short detective novels in Bruguera and making a brief foray into café-concerts accompanied by Maestro Reverendo.  She has worked in Radio Nacional de España, Diario 16, Dunia, Panorama, Tribuna de Actualidad, Televisión Española, Manifiesto del siglo XXI, and the portal Terra... honing skills in reporting, commentary and interviewing difficult to-access celebrities, thereby employing real skills such as dancing "la jota Remolacha Forrajera" [a local, traditional dance] for Bernarndo Bertolucci.  Full of vitality, she has gone from the depths of shantytowns to the heights of palaces, and keeps asking questions and searching for answers.  Her last published books are: Los nuevos jinetes del Apocalipsis [The new cavalrymen of the Apocalipse](Espejo de Tinta) and Alias Lola (an autobiography about the history of the latest political prey to the Ventas jail, published in Temas de Hoy)