Soledad Puértolas
Soledad Puértolas Villanueva (born Saragossa, 3 February 1947) is a Spanish writer,[1] and on 28 January 2010 was named an inmortal or member of the Real Academia Española.[2]
Biography
Puértolas started studying Political Sciences in Madrid, but political problems prevented her from pursuing this further. She then went to study Economic Sciences in Bilbao but again did not finish her course. She eventually took up studying journalism. She married at twenty-one and went to live with her husband in Trondheim, Norway. After returning to Spain, the couple moved to California where she obtained an M.A. in Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara and where she gave birth to a son, Diego Pita, now a writer. After three years in California she moved back to Spain to 1974. In 1979 she won the Premio Sésamo for her work El bandido doblemente armado, the Premio Planeta in 1989 for Queda la noche, and the Premio Anagrama de Ensayo in 1993 with La vida oculta.
On 28 January 2010 she was named an inmortal or member of the Real Academia Española, filling the seat formerly occupied by Antonio Colino.
References
- ↑ Leandro Perez Miguel (1996-06-07). "Soledad Puértolas publica sus "Recuerdos de otra persona"". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 February 2010.
- ↑ "Soledad Puértolas entra en la RAE". La Vanguardia. 28 January 2010. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
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