Alicia Giménez Bartlett

Alicia Giménez Bartlett

Alicia Giménez Bartlett (born 10 June 1951 in Almansa, Albacete, Spain is a Spanish writer particularly known for her series of detective novels protagonized by Petra Delicado.[1]

Biography

Her first novel, Exit was published in 1984. In 1997 she published Una habitación ajena (A Faraway room in English) concerning the tensions between the lesbian writer Virginia Woolf and her servant Nelly, and this won her the Premio Femenino Singular.

The Petra Delicado novels have been published in various languages and are very popular in Germany and Italy. In 1999 Petra Delicado appeared as the protagonist of a television series. In 2011 Bartlett won the Premio Nadal for Donde nadie te encuentre. She has lived in Barcelona since 1975.

Bibliography

References

  1. El Pais Una historia de maquis gana el Nadal January 6th, 2011


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, August 01, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.