Belén Gopegui

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Belén Gopegui in a Summer course in Cáceres, Spain, July 2007.

Belén Ruiz de Gopegui (born 1963, in Madrid) is a Spanish writer.

She studied law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and she worked for several newspapers including El sol.

Her first novel won two prizes : Premio Tigre Juan and . Gerardo Herrero based his film (2000) on her third novel (1998).

Francisco Umbral considers her the best writer of her generation. She is a communist, and she has written several articles about Cuba. In the assessment of Luis I. Prádanos, 'the common denominators of Belén Gopegui's work are socio-political engagement and the constant search for updated and original ways to express it. [...] Belén Gopegui is currently one of the most innovative Spanish authors. Every novel she writes involves structural experimentation to tell a story (the structure always serving the purpose of the story), which doesn't prevent her work from being unified by a persistent social and political engagement.'[1]

Bibliography[]

  • La escala de los mapas. Anagrama, 1993
    • Premio Tigre Juan 1993
    • Premio Iberoamericano "Santiago del Nuevo Extremo" 1994
  • Tocarnos la cara. Anagrama, 1995
  • Cualladó: puntos de vista, 1995
  • En desierta playa, 1995
  • La conquista del aire. Anagrama, 1998
  • Lo real. Anagrama, 2001
    • Finalista del XIII Premio Rómulo Gallegos 2003
    • Finalista del I Premio Fundación José Manuel Lara de Novela 2002
    • Finalista del Premio de la Crítica 2001
  • El lado frío de la almohada. El Cultural 2003
  • con González-Sinde, Ángeles. La suerte dormida, 2003 (script).
  • El principio de Arquímedes, 2004 (script).
  • El lado frío de la almohada. Anagrama, 2004
  • El padre de Blancanieves. Anagrama, 2007
  • El Balonazo. Anagrama, 2008
  • Deseo de ser punk. Anagrama, 2009
  • The Scale of Maps. City Lights Publishers, 2010. ISBN 978-0-87286-510-5.
  • Acceso no autorizado. Mondadori, 2011
  • El comité de la noche. Penguin Random House, 2014

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References[]

  1. ^ Luis I. Prádanos, 'Writing an Engaged Novel in the Network Society: Belén Gopegui, Systemic Narratives, and Globalization', in Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing: Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics, ed. by Estrella Cibreiro, Francisca López, Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature, 7 (New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 208-24 (pp. 208-9).
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