[1] Basilio Rodríguez Cañada was born in 1961, in the municipality of Navalvillar de Pela, in the province of Badajoz, which belongs to the autonomous community of Extremadura.

From 1989 to 2003 Rodríguez Cañada was deputy director of the "Nuestra Señora de África" school, affiliated with the Complutense University of Madrid under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He was also founder and president of the "Association for the Joint Activities of the University Affiliated Schools of Madrid".

[8][9] From 2005 to December 2007, he hosted the weekly multicast television program "Tiempo de tertulia".

[17] His writing has won various literary awards and has been translated into Arabic, Italian, French, English, German, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, Galician and Catalan.