Belén Gopegui

Belén Gopegui in a Summer course in Cáceres, Spain, July 2007.

Belén Ruiz de Gopegui (Madrid, 1963) is a Spanish writer.

She studied law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and she worked for several newspapers including El sol.

Her first novel La escala de los mapas won two prizes : Premio Tigre Juan and Premio Iberoamericano Santiago del Nuevo Extremo. Gerardo Herrero based his film Las razones de mis amigos (2000) on her third novel La conquista del aire (1998).

Francisco Umbral considers her the best writer of her generation. She is a communist, and she has written several articles about Cuba.

Bibliography

• La escala de los mapas. Anagrama, 1993
  • Premio Tigre Juan 1993
  • Premio Iberoamericano "Santiago del Nuevo Extremo" 1994
• Tocarnos la cara. Anagrama, 1995
• Cualladó: puntos de vista, 1995
• En desierta playa, 1995
• La conquista del aire. Anagrama, 1998
• Lo real. Anagrama, 2001
  • Finalista del XIII Premio Rómulo Gallegos 2003
  • Finalista del I Premio Fundación José Manuel Lara de Novela 2002
  • Finalista del Premio de la Crítica 2001
• El lado frío de la almohada. El Cultural 2003
• con González-Sinde, Ángeles. La suerte dormida, 2003 (script).
• El principio de Arquímedes, 2004 (script).
• El lado frío de la almohada. Anagrama, 2004
• The Scale of Maps. City Lights Publishers, 2010. ISBN 978-0-87286-510-5.

External links

• Biographical sketch from the literary workshop Oktubre2003
• Belén Gopegui in Escritoras.com: Information on women authors and their works
• Author of the month in Escritores.org.
• Interview for El Mundo (April 22, 2001)
• Interview with Marta Rivera de la Cruz, in Espéculo 7, 1997.
• Review of La conquista del aire by Marta Rivera de la Cruz, in Espéculo 8, 1997.
• Interview by Miren Eraso