Almudena Grandes
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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.
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[edit] Books
[edit] Novels
- Las edades de Lulú (Tusquets, 1989)
- The Ages of Lulu. translated by Alina Reyes. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2005. ISBN 8472237486. http://books.google.com/books?id=4jiOSd3aRGsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Almudena+Grandes&hl=en&ei=REkrTcX1JIGclgeHxOCUAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- Te llamaré Viernes Tusquets, 1991, ISBN 8472238350
- Malena es un nombre de tango Tusquets, 1994, ISBN 8483106558; Tusquets, 2008, ISBN 9788483835135
- Atlas de geografía humana Tusquets, 1998, ISBN 8483100738
- Los aires difíciles Tusquets, 2002
- The Wind from the East. translated by Sonia Soto. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2007. ISBN 9781583227466. http://books.google.com/books?id=ND6ogkYxG54C&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Wind+From+the+East&hl=en&ei=70grTdTsOcP_lgfA18TSAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- Castillos de cartón Tusquets, 2004, ISBN 8483102595 [2]
- El corazón helado Tusquets, 2007 ISBN 9788483103739
- The Frozen Heart Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010, translated by Frank Wynne; Orion Publishing Group, Limited, 2010, ISBN 9780753823132
[edit] 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)
[edit] External links
- (Spanish) Website Almudena Grandes
[edit] 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 [1]
- ^ Briscoe, Joanna (29 July 2006). "It's an ill wind". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/jul/29/featuresreviews.guardianreview16.
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