Dolores Soler-Espiauba

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Dolores Soler-Espiauba Conesa (born Cartagena, Spain, 1935)[ citation needed ] is a Spanish writer, winning awards for her novels.

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Biography

Having studied German and Spanish Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid, Soler-Esiauba began work as a teacher in Portugal, France and Poland. In 1974 she moved to Brussels, Belgium, where she worked as a translator and teacher for the European Union. [1] Her first novel, Los Canardos, was published late in 1987, for which she received the Premio Felipe Trigo. Later she would win the same prize for Woman with a Landscape of Rain (Mujer con paisaje de lluvia) in 1988.

Soler-Espiauba has also received the Premio Andalucía de Novela for Sister Ana, What Do You See?,[ citation needed ] the Premio Azorín in 1991, the Premio Café Gijón in 1992[ citation needed ] and the Premio Gabriel Miró de Cuentos in 2007 for The Tomb of King Baltasar. [2] [3]

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Short Stories

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References

  1. "A short biography of Dolores Soler-Espiauba". Escritoras. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
  2. "Dolores Solar-Espiauba Wins". Las Provincias. 6 June 2007. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
  3. "Un cuento sobre la inmigración gana el premio Gabriel Miró". El Pais. 6 June 2007. Retrieved 22 September 2013.