Ãngeles Caso
Ángeles Caso (* July 16, 1959 in Gijon, Spain ) is a Spanish writer, journalist and translator.
Life
Ángeles Caso was born in 1959 in a family whose concern for the culture they coined from their childhood. Her father, José Miguel Caso González, was a professor at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oviedo. He had specialized in the 18th century and was soon to be appointed as Rector of the University.
Caso studied foreign languages ( she speaks English, French, Italian and Portuguese ), music and dance.
Your degree she earned in geography and history; while they had specialized in art history. But even at that time she made her first experiences in the media; first in newspapers, on radio and then on television. Between 1985 and 1987, she hosted at TVE television news and talk show La Tarde 1987.
She worked in various cultural institutions such as the Fundación Príncipe de Asturias and the Instituto Feijoo at the University of Oviedo, which deals with the study of the 18th century. In addition, she was in various media, such as the Televisión Española, Cadena SER, the Radio Nacional de España and various newspapers and magazines operate. With 35 years of Caso left the journalism - but to return without him all the back - and began her career as a writer.
Awards
In 1994 she was nominated El peso de las sombras for the Premio Planeta Prize for Literature. In 2000, she won for her novel Un largo silencio the Premio Fernando Lara de Novela, in 2009 the Premio Planeta for Contra el viento.
Works
In addition to her narrative work written Ángeles Caso historical essays. In it she pays special attention to the consideration of the modern era and the understanding of women in the longitudinal section of the story. She has also written the screenplay for the film Gerardo Vera's Deseo ( 2002).
- Asturias desde la noche. Guide through Asturias, 1988.
- Aunque haya niebla. In 1992.
- Elizabeth, emperatriz de Austria - Hungría o el hada. Sissi Biography, 1993.
- El peso de las sombras. Roman, 1994.
- El inmortal. Fairy Tales, 1996.
- El mundo visto desde el cielo. Roman, 1997.
- El resto de la vida. Roman, 1998.
- El verano de Lucky. Roman, 1999.
- La trompa de los monos. Fairy Tales, 1999.
- La alegría de vivir. Fairy Tales, 1999.
- Un largo silencio. Novel, 2000.
- Giuseppe Verdi, la vida de un genio intensa. Verdi Biography, 2001.
- Las olvidadas, una historia de mujeres creadoras. Essay, 2005.
- Contra el viento. Novel, 2009