Almudena Grandes
Almudena Grandes Hernández (Madrid, 7 May 1960) is a Spanish writer.
She studied geography and history at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is married to the poet Luis García Montero. In 1989 she won the La Sonrisa Vertical prize with her erotic novel Las edades de Lulú, which has been translated into several languages. Bigas Luna made a movie based on this book, as did Gerardo Herrero with Malena es un nombre de tango and Juan Vicente Córdoba with El lenguaje de los balcones in his film Aunque tú no lo sepas.
As Emilie L. Bergmann said, her novel Las edades de Lulú (1989) "represented a breakthrough for eroticism in women's writing".[1]
Her books speak about the Spanish people in the last quarter of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st century. She shows in them a great realism and an intense psychological introspection.
Books
Novels
- Las edades de Lulú (Tusquets, 1989)
- The Ages of Lulu. translated by Alina Reyes. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2005. ISBN 84-7223-748-6.
- Te llamaré Viernes Tusquets, 1991, ISBN 84-7223-835-0
- Malena es un nombre de tango Tusquets, 1994, ISBN 84-8310-655-8; Tusquets, 2008, ISBN 978-84-8383-513-5
- Atlas de geografía humana Tusquets, 1998, ISBN 84-8310-073-8
- Los aires difíciles Tusquets, 2002
- The Wind from the East. translated by Sonia Soto. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2007. ISBN 978-1-58322-746-6.
- Castillos de cartón Tusquets, 2004, ISBN 84-8310-259-5[2]
- El corazón helado Tusquets, 2007 ISBN 978-84-8310-373-9
- The Frozen Heart Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010, translated by Frank Wynne; Orion Publishing Group, Limited, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7538-2313-2
- El lector de Julio Verne Tusquets, 2012, ISBN 978-84-8383-400-8
- Las tres bodas de Manolita Tusquets, 2014, ISBN 978-84-8383-845-7
- Los besos en el pan Tusquets, 2015, ISBN 978-84-9066-191-8
Short story collections
- Modelos de mujer (Tusquets, 1996) (ISBN 84-8310-602-7)
- Mercados de Barceló, 2003 (ISBN 84-8310-881-X)
- Estaciones de paso (Tusquets, 2005) (ISBN 84-8310-312-5)
External links
- (Spanish) Website Almudena Grandes
- (English) Almudena Grandes' profile at Tusquets editors website
References
- ↑ Emilie L. Bergman (2007): "Women Writers in Twentieth-Century Spain", in Mirrors and Echoes, Emilie L. Bergmann and Richard Herr (ed.). Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, page 2
- ↑ Briscoe, Joanna (29 July 2006). "It's an ill wind". The Guardian (London).
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