Ana Penyas was born in Valencia in 1987. She graduated with a degree in industrial design and art at the University of Valencia. Her graphic novel “We Ladies Are Fine” (2017), in which Penyas gives a voice to her grandmothers and all those “invisible women” of post-war Spain, won the Spanish National Award for comic books (Premio Nacional del Cómic) in 2018. This graphic novel has also won the international comic book award FNAC-Salamandra Graphic in 2017 and Ana Penyas was declared best young graphic artist at the Comic Book Fair in Barcelona in 2018.

Penyas has published two other illustrated books: short story collection “Mexique” which talks about more than four hundred children who were sent to Mexico during the Spanish civil war, and “En transición“, a kind of illustrated journey through last eighty years of Spanish history, with special importance given to Franco’s regime.