The writer Almudena Grandes died this Saturday, as reported by La Ser. The novelist, one of the great names in Spanish literature, had announced in October that she had cancer. He was 61 years old.
The Madrid writer Almudena Grandes died this Saturday afternoon, a victim of cancer, at the age of 61, according to the daily El País.
The author of ‘The ages of Lulú’ and National Narrative Award had announced a few weeks ago that she was suffering from cancer, a disease she had been fighting since September last year
Grandes was born in 1960 in Madrid. After studying geography and history at Complutense University, he did all kinds of editorial work. Grandes became known in 1989 with ” The ages of Lulú “, a book that won the La Sonrisa Vertical award, and since then it has not stopped receiving the applause of readers and critics.
In 1997, Almudena Grandes received in Italy the prestigious Rossone d’Oro award, she was the first woman to receive it. In 1998 she published ‘Atlas of human geography’, in which four characters alternately take the voice to tell, in the first person, their own story.
Her work also includes other titles such as ‘ I will call you Friday ‘, ‘Malena is a tango name’, ‘Los aires difficult’, ‘Cardboard castles’, ‘The frozen heart’ and ‘Los besos en el pan’, as well like the volumes of stories ‘Models of women’ and ‘Stations of passage’.
In September 2010, Inés and Joy was published, the first novel of the ambitious novelistic project ‘ Episodios de una guerra interminable ‘, which, like the ‘National Episodes’ by Benito Pérez Galdós, tries to cover the postwar period and the Franco dictatorship. until 1964, the year in which the Regime celebrated its 25th anniversary.
The first novel in the series won the Madrid Critics Award, the Elena Poniatowska Ibero-American Novel Award, and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award. In 2012 the second novel of the project was published, ‘The reader of Julio Verne’, and in 2014 ‘The three weddings of Manolita’. The fourth installment, ‘Doctor García’s Patients’, published in September 2017, won the 2018 National Narrative Prize and the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature for its French translation.
Her latest published book, which also belongs to this series, is ‘ Frankenstein’s mother ‘, in which he novelized the life of Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira, who beat her own daughter, Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira.
«The one entitled ‘Frankenstein’s mother’ seems to me the best of the five novels that appeared in the series ‘Episodes of an interminable war’, dethroning my favorite so far, ‘Jules Verne’s reader’ (2012) »Wrote our critic José María Pozuelo Yvancos. «It is no coincidence that, being both long novels, they are the two in which Almudena Grandes has contained the most her proverbial taste for the breadth of narrative meanders, aware as she is of her ability as a born narrator, in the lineage of the nineteenth-century novel misnamed realist », she added in her criticism.
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