Maria Dolores Torres Manzanera, known as Maruja Torres (Barcelona, 16 March 1943), is a Spanish writer and journalist. She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela and the Premio Nadal.
Maria Dolores Torres Manzanera, known as Maruja Torres (Barcelona, 16 March 1943), is a Spanish writer and journalist. She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela and the Premio Nadal.
Her parents were from Murcia, and she was born in the El Raval neighbourhood. Her start as a journalist was thanks to Carmen Kurtz when she was 21. Torres has worked for several publications (including La Prensa, Garbo , Fotogramas , Por Favor, and El País ), and her opinions about the People's Party [1] [2] and Israeli government have been very controversial.
She is considered a political leader of Feminism, specifically of the Spanish variant "charismo" or "charocracia". [3]
Her short story La desaparecida (The Woman who Disappeared) was included in Rainy Days - Días de lluvia: Short Stories by Contemporary Spanish Women Writers, an anthology edited by Montserrat Lunati, together with a translation into English. [4]
Maruja currently lives in Beirut, Lebanon.
Arturo Uslar Pietri was a Venezuelan intellectual, historian, writer, television producer, and politician.
La Oreja de Van Gogh is a Spanish pop band from Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. The band's lyrics and compositions are written primarily by Xabi San Martín, and additionally by Pablo Benegas and Amaia Montero. The lyrical themes of their songs typically include love, friendship and relationships. Since their debut, they have sold more than 8 million albums worldwide.
Premio Nadal is a Spanish literary prize awarded annually by the publishing house Ediciones Destino, part of Planeta. It has been awarded every year on 6 January since 1944. The Josep Pla Award for Catalan literature is given at the same ceremony.
Ana María Matute Ausejo was an internationally acclaimed Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria. The third woman to receive the Cervantes Prize for her literary oeuvre, she is considered one of the foremost novelists of the posguerra, the period immediately following the Spanish Civil War.
Rosa Montero Gayo is a Spanish journalist and author of contemporary fiction.
El Raval is a neighborhood in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona, the capital city of Catalonia. The neighborhood, especially the part closest to the old port, was formerly (informally) known as Barri Xinès or Barrio Chino, meaning "Chinatown". El Raval is one of the two historical neighborhoods that border La Rambla, the other being the Barri Gòtic; it contains some 50,000 people.
The Premio Planeta de Novela is a Spanish literary prize, awarded since 1952 by the Spanish publisher Grupo Planeta to an original unpublished novel written in Spanish. It is one of about 16 literary prizes given by Planeta.
Lorenzo Manuel Silva Amador is a Spanish award-winning writer. After earning a law degree at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, he worked as a lawyer from 1992 to 2002.
Julio Llamazares is a Spanish author born in Vegamián, León Province.
Mercedes Abad is a Spanish journalist and short story writer.
The 1st Goya Awards were presented at the Teatro Lope de Vega, Madrid on 17 March 1987, and was presented by Fernando Rey.
Ángela Vallvey Arévalo is a Spanish writer.
Soledad Puértolas Villanueva is a Spanish writer, and on 28 January 2010 was named an inmortal or member of the Real Academia Española. She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela.
Película is a Spanish film festival held every October by the Instituto Cervantes de Manila, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain to the Philippines. Created in 2002, this event shows award-winning Spanish and Latin American films.
Clara Sánchez is a Spanish novelist. Among other literary awards, Sánchez won the 2013 Premio Planeta de Novela for her novel El cielo ha vuelto.
Juan Eslava Galán, is a Spanish writer of historic genre, both fiction and non-fiction. He has published some of his works under the pen name Nicholas Wilcox.
Alicia Giménez Bartlett is a Spanish writer particularly known for her series of detective novels with protagonist Petra Delicado.
Adelaida García Morales was a Spanish writer.
Clara Obligado Marcó del Pont is an Argentine-Spanish writer.
This is a list of Spanish television related events from 1962.
