The author, who was very active on social networks, was at his home in Vigo with his partner, the writer and lawyer Ledicia Costas, when he suffered a heart attack.
He writer of children’s and youth books and professor from Coruña Miguel López, The Hematocritic, has died this monday afternoon as a result of a heart attack, as confirmed by sources close to him. He was 47 years old.
The author, who was very active on social networks, was at home with his partner, the writer and lawyer. Ledicia Costas, in Navia (Vigo) when he suffered a heart attack. Attempts to revive him were unsuccessful and he died shortly afterwards. Pending the autopsy, the possible cause of death is a heart attack.
From immense pain I have to tell you that this afternoon is gone @hematocritico, my life partner and the most wonderful person who has crossed my path. Wherever you are right now, THANK YOU ❤️
— Ledicia Costas (@LediciaCostas) November 27, 2023
The Hematocriticwho admitted in an interview in La Opinión de A Coruña, from the Prensa Ibérica group, in 2020 that he perceived himself “as different from others” because when he was a child he liked “things that were not the majority in his class”, he was a teacher of Early Childhood Education, English and Primary at school The Slaves from A Coruña. Some of his books are adaptations of traditional children’s stories. In 2021 he started the series of the character Max Burbuja, to whom the cartoonist and collaborator of this newspaper gave a face and expression. Santy Gutierrez.