Writer Almudena Grandes He died this Saturday at his home in Madrid as a result of cancer, which was discovered last September and which he was finally unable to cure, Efe confirmed. sources from the publishing house Tusquets…
Born in Madrid in 1960, Grandes was very committed to feminism and the political struggles of the left. National Award for Narrative 2018, author of novels like Lulu’s age or Malena is a tango name, among other works, and wife of the poet Luis García Montero, current director of the Cervantes Institute.
In 2020 she was appointed Honorary Doctor of the National University of Distance Education (UNED) and also has the Rosone d’Or award in Italy for her work in general (1997), UGT union, Julian Besteiro de las Artes y las Letras (2002) , Atocha International Bar Association, awarded in 2017, or the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature in 2020. Dr. Garcia’s patients…
His first big hit was Lulu’s agewhich he published in 1989, and with Malena is a tango name her consecration as a writer came.
Atlas of Human Geography (1998), Rough winds (2002); Cardboard locks (2004) or Frozen heart (2007) are the titles of other great works of Almudena Grandes, who, very keen on Benito Pérez Galdos, decided in 2010 to publish Agnes and Joy, the first title in the series Episodes of endless warwhich brought him numerous prizes and which he was finally unable to complete.
Also regularly published in newspapers and media, October 10 announced in his permanent column Country suffering from cancerdiagnosed last September and finally the cause of his death this Saturday at his home in Madrid.
Almudena Grandes was big supporter of Atlético de Madrid…