Almudena Grandes Hernández (Madrid, 7 May 1960) is a Spanish

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 writer

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She studied Geography

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 and History

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 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is married to the poet Luis García Montero. In 1989 she won the La Sonrisa Vertical prize with her erotic novel Las edades de Lulú, which has been translated into several languages. Bigas Luna

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 made a movie based on this book, as did Gerardo Herrero

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 with Malena es un nombre de tango and Juan Vicente Córdoba with El lenguaje de los balcones in his film Aunque tú no lo sepas.

As Emilie L. Bergmann said, her novel Las edades de Lulú (1989) "represented a breakthrough for eroticism in women's writing".

Her books speak about the Spanish people in the last quarter of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st century. She shows in them a great realism and an intense psychological introspection.

Novels

• Las edades de Lulú (Tusquets, 1989)
• Te llamaré Viernes Tusquets, 1991, ISBN 8472238350
• Malena es un nombre de tango Tusquets, 1994, ISBN 8483106558; Tusquets, 2008, ISBN 9788483835135
• Atlas de geografía humana Tusquets, 1998, ISBN 8483100738
• Los aires difíciles Tusquets, 2002
• Castillos de cartón Tusquets, 2004, ISBN 8483102595
• El corazón helado Tusquets, 2007 ISBN 9788483103739
  • The Frozen Heart Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010, translated by Frank Wynne
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    ; Orion Publishing Group, Limited, 2010, ISBN 9780753823132

Short story collections

• Modelos de mujer (Tusquets, 1996) (ISBN 84-8310-602-7)
• Mercados de Barceló, 2003 (ISBN 84-8310-881-X)
• Estaciones de paso (Tusquets, 2005) (ISBN 84-8310-312-5)