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 University Complutense in Madrid. After studying Grandes worked as a freelance publishing assistant. Long before its first publication, the novel Lulú (1989 ) she had begun to write. Here About it says:

Writing was a way to do the things I did not like, to enchant and to change reality.

Direct her first novel Lulú which appeared in German translation in 1990 in publishing on Gallows Hill, was a translated into twenty languages ​​international bestseller with a total circulation of over one million copies. Even with the novel Malena Grandes moved to the top of the international bestseller lists. In the novel, The frozen heart is about the impact on two families until the first years of the 21st century, which have resulted from the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime and the exile of Spaniards in France.

The novel was made ​​into a film by the Spanish director Lulú Bigas Luna and under the German title Lulu - first shown the story of a woman on 6 June 1991 in Germany.

Since 1996, Almudena Grandes is married to the Spanish poet Luis García Montero.

Awards

For her novel Almudena Grandes Lulú received the ausgelobten from the publisher Tusquets Editores La Sonrisa Vertical Prize for Literature ( The vertical smile ). For her previous literary work the author the Premio Julián Besteiro received.

Works (selection)

  • Las edades de Lulú. Tusquets Editores, Barcelona 1989 German edition: Lulú. The story of a woman. Translated from Spanish by Christiane Rasche. Gallows Hill, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-925387-73-0.
  • German edition: I'll call you Friday. Translated from Spanish by Christiane Rasche and Harald Riemann. Gallows Hill, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-442-41395-8.
  • German edition: Malena. Translated from Spanish by Christian Rasche and Wanda S. Wild. Goldmann, Munich 1996 ISBN 3-442-43149-2.
  • German edition: Atlas of love. Translated from Spanish by Sybille Martin. Joke, Bern / Munich / Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-502-11933-3.
  • German edition: castles in the air. Translated from Spanish by Sabine greed mountain. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2005, ISBN 978-3-498-02498-7.
  • German edition: The frozen heart. Translated from Spanish by Roberto de Hollanda. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2009, ISBN 978-3-498-02514-4.
  • German edition: The enemy of my father. Translated from Spanish by Roberto de Hollanda. Hanser, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-24125-1.
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