Soledad Puértolas
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Soledad Puértolas Villanueva (Saragossa, 3 February 1947) is a Spanish writer, and on 28 January 2010 was named an inmortal or member of the Real Academia Española
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, but political problems prevented her from pursuing this further. She then went to study Economic Sciences in Bilbao
but again did not finish her course. She eventually took up studying journalism. She married at twenty-one and went to live with her husband in Trondheim
, Norway
. After returning to Spain, the couple moved to California where she obtained an M.A. in Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara
and where she gave birth to a son, Diego Pita, now a writer. After three years in California she moved back to Spain to 1974. In 1979 she won the Premio Sésamo for her work El bandido doblemente armado, the Premio Planeta in 1989 for Queda la noche, and the Premio Anagrama de Ensayo in 1993 with La vida oculta.
On 28 January 2010 she was named an inmortal or member of the Real Academia Española
, filling the seat formerly occupied by Antonio Colino.
Real Academia Española
The Royal Spanish Academy is the official royal institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language. It is based in Madrid, Spain, but is affiliated with national language academies in twenty-one other hispanophone nations through the Association of Spanish Language Academies...
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Biography
Puértolas started studying Political Sciences in MadridMadrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, but political problems prevented her from pursuing this further. She then went to study Economic Sciences in Bilbao
Bilbao
Bilbao ) is a Spanish municipality, capital of the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. With a population of 353,187 , it is the largest city of its autonomous community and the tenth largest in Spain...
but again did not finish her course. She eventually took up studying journalism. She married at twenty-one and went to live with her husband in Trondheim
Trondheim
Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
. After returning to Spain, the couple moved to California where she obtained an M.A. in Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a site in Goleta, California, from Santa Barbara and northwest of Los...
and where she gave birth to a son, Diego Pita, now a writer. After three years in California she moved back to Spain to 1974. In 1979 she won the Premio Sésamo for her work El bandido doblemente armado, the Premio Planeta in 1989 for Queda la noche, and the Premio Anagrama de Ensayo in 1993 with La vida oculta.
On 28 January 2010 she was named an inmortal or member of the Real Academia Española
Real Academia Española
The Royal Spanish Academy is the official royal institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language. It is based in Madrid, Spain, but is affiliated with national language academies in twenty-one other hispanophone nations through the Association of Spanish Language Academies...
, filling the seat formerly occupied by Antonio Colino.