Soledad Puértolas

Soledad Puértolas was born in Zaragoza in 1947 and moved to Madrid with her family in adolescence. She began studying political science, which the political situation prevented her from continuing, and then studied journalism. Married young, she lived in Norway and then in California, where she obtained at Santa Barbara a master's degree in Spanish and Portuguese language and literature, before returning to Spain in 1974. The author of more than a dozen novels and several collections of stories, she received the Planeta Prize in 1989 and joined the Royal Spanish Academy in 2010.

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• NovelEl bandido doblemente armadoSoledad Puértolas · 1980not translated into EnglishLiterature