Manuel del Águila

He was a fellow student and friend of Arturo Medina and Jesus de Perceval, with whom he attended classes in drawing and painting at the School of Arts and Crafts in the Almeria capital, where he was awarded a silver medal for his work.

For them he interviewed nearly all the filmmakers and actors who passed through the province of Almeria in the film boom years and covered events such as the Palomares hydrogen bombs incident.

These collaborations were extended to magazines specializing in literature such as Green Gold, Nouvelles Litteraires, Reader's Digest and Poética Bahía.

in 1955 he published Canciones andaluzas (Andalusian songs), a first taste of his effort to revive folk poetry and customs, to great success.

In 1988 his book Seis chiquillos en la orilla (Six kids on the shore) was published, with illustrations by the artist Carmen Pinteño, which received critical acclaim locally and nationally.