He Colmo Tóibín who in 1975, having just turned 20, arrived in Barcelona "which was emerging from the calamities of dictatorship and repression" could not imagine that, half a century later, he would be such a popular author in Catalonia, that he would be received with all the honors by the mayor of the city, Jaume Collboni, and that he would become He is one of the writers chosen to represent the Catalan capital at this fall's Guadalajara Book Fair..

It often happens that good ideas gain strength from unexpected coincidences and complicities. This was the case with Arcadia, which was born in 2003 thanks to the chemistry between two demanding, curious, and discerning editors and a bookseller. The editors were Montse Ingla (Barcelona, ​​1960) and Antoni Munné (Barcelona, ​​1954). The bookseller, Antonio Ramírez (Medellín, 1960), from La Central"We realized we shared very diverse interests and that we wanted to try our luck with a personal publishing project at the pace our jobs allowed," they explain. Munné had held management positions at Planeta and Santillana—overseeing labels such as Alfaguara, Taurus, and Aguilar—and Ingla was literary director of Cruïlla, which published around 100 new books annually specializing in children and young adult literature. Ramírez asked them to edit the first issue of a thought journal from La Central: "There were articles by Zygmunt Bauman, Roberto Calasso, Jordi Llovet, Natalia Ginzburg and Umberto Eco, among others."