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.

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