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] She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Puértolas and the second or maternal family name is Villanueva.
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Soledad Puértolas
Soledad Puértolas in the Guadalajara International Book Fair in 2017
Born
Soledad Puértolas Villanueva

(1947-02-03) 3 February 1947
Zaragoza, Spain

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.

Puértolas was elected to Seat g of the Real Academia Española on 28 January 2010, she took up her seat on 21 November the same year.[3] She filled the seat formerly occupied by Antonio Colino.

Her short story Viejas historias (Tales from the Past) was included in Rainy Days - Días de lluvia: Short Stories by Contemporary Spanish Women Writers, an anthology edited by Montserrat Lunati, together with a translation into English. [4]

Publications
  • El Madrid de "La lucha por la vida". Madrid: Helios, 1971. Essay.
  • El recorrido de los animales. Madrid: Júcar, 1975. Short story.
  • El bandido doblemente armado. Madrid: Legasa, 1980. Novel. Premio Sésamo 1979.
  • Una enfermedad moral. Madrid: Trieste, 1982. Short stories.
  • A través de las ondas. Short story. In Doce relatos de mujeres. Navajo, Ymelda (ed.) Madrid: Alianza, 1982, pp. 165–177.
  • Burdeos. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1986. Novel.
  • La sombra de una noche. Madrid: Anaya, 1986. Short story.
  • Todos mienten. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1988. Novel.
  • Queda la noche. Barcelona: Planeta, 1989. Novel. Premio Planeta 1989.
  • Días del Arenal. Barcelona: Planeta, 1992. Novel.
  • La corriente del golfo. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1993. Short stories.
  • La vida oculta. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1993. Essay. Premio Anagrama 1993.
  • Si al atardecer llegara el mensajero. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1995. Novel.
  • La vida se mueve. Madrid: El País-Aguilar, 1995. Articles.
  • Recuerdos de otra persona. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1996. Biography.
  • La hija predilecta. Short story. In Madres e hijas. Freixas, Laura (ed.) Barcelona: Anagrama, 1996.
  • Una vida inesperada. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1997. Novel.
  • Rosa Chacel. Essay. In Retratos literarios: Escritores españoles del siglo XX evocados por sus contemporáneos. Freixas. Laura (ed.) Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 1997, pp. 181–182.
  • Gente que vino a mi boda. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1998. Short stories.
  • A la hora en que cierran los bares. Madrid: Difusión Directa Édera, 1998. Short stories.
  • El cuarto secreto. Short story. In Relatos para un fin de milenio. Barcelona: Plaza y Janés, 1998, pp. 15-26
  • El inventor del tetrabrik. Short story. In Vidas de mujer. Monmany, Mercedes (ed.) Madrid: Alianza, 1998, pp. 131–143.
  • La señora Berg. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1999. Novel.
  • La rosa de plata. Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 1999. Novel.
  • Un poeta en la piscina. Short story. In Cuentos solidarios. Madrid: ONCE, 1999, pp. 13–15.
  • La carta desde el refugio. Short story. In Mujeres al alba. Madrid: Alfaguara, 1999, pp. 133–136.
  • Adiós a las novias. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2000. Short stories.
  • Con mi madre. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2001
  • Pisando jardines. short story. In Orosia: Mujeres de sol a sol. Jaca: Pirineum Multimedia, 2002, pp. 159–164.
  • Ausencia. Short story. In Mujeres en ruta. 2005, pp. 41–47.
  • Historia de un abrigo. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2005. Novel.
  • Cielo nocturno. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2008. Novel.
  • Masajes. Short story. In Cuentos de amigas. Laura Freixas (ed.) Anagrama, 2009.
  • Compañeras de viaje. Barcelona. Anagrama, 2010. Short stories.
  • Mi amor en vano. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2012. Novel.
  • El fin. Barcelona. Anagrama, 2015. Short stories.
  • Chicos y chicas. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2016. Short stories.
  • Lúcida melancolía. Pamplona. Ipso ediciones. 2017. Colección Baroja & Yo. Essay.
  • Música de ópera. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2019. Novel.

References
  1. Leandro Perez Miguel (1996-06-07). "Soledad Puértolas publica sus "Recuerdos de otra persona"". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 February 2010.
  2. "Soledad Puértolas entra en la RAE". La Vanguardia. 28 January 2010. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
  3. "Soledad Puértolas Villanueva" (in Spanish). Real Academia Española. Archived from the original on 18 April 2016.
  4. Rainy Days - Días de lluvia: Short Stories by Contemporary Spanish Women Writers edited by Montserrat Lunati. Aris and Phillips Hispanic Classics, 2018 ISBN 978-1-910-57230-6.
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