Julio Camba was born in Vilanova de Arousa on 16 December 1884. Being just a boy he embarked as a stowaway to Argentina, where he was expelled for his revolutionary activities, with whom he continued his return to Spain. He collaborated in Tierra y Libertad in his time as a newspaper and later founded El Rebelde newspaper remarkable anarchist ideas in which collaborated, among others, Peter Kropotkin.

He harassed by the authorities and pressed by the difficulties of a company of this type, closed the rebel, moved away from his "youthful adventure" and his signature began to be seen in other newspapers of the time as El País, Spain Nueva, El Mundo and El Sol, down to ABC.

He collected his columns and books travel chronicles as Germany, London, on almost anything on almost every city or Automatic, volumes were highly appreciated by the readers of his time. Of all his titles he stands My best pages, anthology prepared by himself in the fifties-and reissued in Pumpkin seeds in 2012 that gathers the best of his literary output. Many of its pages are authentic masterpieces for his wit and style.

His particular alignment with the Franco regime and the fact that he dedicated to a genre considered minor make-the journalistic column Camba is still largely unknown to many readers.

In 1949 he moved to room 383 of the Hotel Palace in Madrid until his death on February 28, 1962.