Almudena Grandes

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Almudena Grandes

Almudena Grandes Hernández (born May 7, 1960 in Madrid ) is a Spanish writer .

Life

Almudena Grandes attended a school run by nuns. She then studied geography and history at the Complutense University in Madrid. After graduating, Grandes worked as a freelance publisher. She had begun writing long before her first publication, the novel Lulú (1989). About this she says:

Writing was a way of enchanting the things that I didn't like and of changing reality.

Her first novel Lulú , which was published in German translation in 1990 by Verlag am Galgenberg , became an international bestseller translated into twenty languages ​​with a total circulation of over a million copies. With the novel Malena, Grandes also moved to the top of the international bestseller lists. The novel The Frozen Heart is about the effects on two families up to the first years of the 21st century that resulted from the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime as well as the exile of Spaniards in France .

The novel Lulú was filmed by the Spanish director Bigas Luna and was shown for the first time in Germany on June 6, 1991 under the German title Lulu - The Story of a Woman . The novel Castillos de cartón was filmed in 2009 by Salvador García Ruiz. In Germany the film ran under the same title as the book, Luftschlösser .

Almudena Grandes has been married to the Spanish poet Luis García Montero since 1996 .

Awards

In 1989, Almudena Grandes received the La Sonrisa Vertical ( The Vertical Smile ) literary prize from the publisher Tusquets Editores in Barcelona for her novel Lulú . For her literary work to date, the writer has received the Premio Julián Besteiro . Her novel Inés y la alegría received the Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in 2011 .

Works (selection)

  • Las edades de Lulú. Tusquets Editores, Barcelona 1989.
    • German edition: Lulú. A woman's story. Translated from Spanish by Christiane Rasche. Galgenberg, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-925387-73-0 .
  • Te llamaré Viernes. Tusquets Editores, Barcelona 1991.
    • German edition: I'll call you Friday. Translated from the Spanish by Christiane Rasche and Harald Riemann. Galgenberg, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-442-41395-8 .
  • Malena es un nombre de tango. Tusquets Editores, Barcelona 1994.
    • German edition: Malena. Translated from Spanish by Christian Rasche and Wanda S. Wild. Goldmann, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-442-43149-2 .
  • Atlas de Geografia Humana. Tusquets Editores, Barcelona 1998.
    • German edition: Atlas of love. Translated from Spanish by Sybille Martin. Scherz, Bern / Munich / Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-502-11933-3 .
  • Castillos de cartón. Tusquets Editores, Barcelona 2004.
    • German edition: Castles in the air. Translated from the Spanish by Sabine Giersberg. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-498-02498-1 .
  • El corazón helado. Tusquets Editores, Barcelona 2007.
    • German edition: The frozen heart. Translated from Spanish by Roberto de Hollanda. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-498-02514-4 .
  • Inés y la alegría. Tusquets Editores, Barcelona 2010.
    • German edition: Inés and the joy. Translated from Spanish by Roberto de Hollanda. dtv, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-14506-0 .
  • El lector de Julio Verne. Tusquets Editores, Barcelona 2012.
    • German edition: My father's enemy. Translated from Spanish by Roberto de Hollanda. Hanser, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-24125-1 .

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Single receipts

  1. ↑ a b Biographical information in: Lulú. Galgenberg, Hamburg 1990.
personal data
SURNAME Grandes, Almudena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grandes Hernández, Almudena (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid