Begoña Huertas
Begoña Huertas | |
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| Born | 4 August 1965 Gijón, Spain |
| Died | 25 December 2022 (aged 57) Madrid, Spain |
| Occupation | novelist, journalist |
Begoña Huertas Uhagón (1965–2022) was a Spanish writer and journalist. She won the Casa de las Américas Prize for her essay Ensayo de un cambio: la narrativa cubana en la década de los 80.
Biography
Begoña Huertas was born on 4 August[1] 1965 in Gijón.[2][3] She completed her doctorate in Spanish philology at the Autonomous University of Madrid,[2][4] specializing in Latin American literature.[5] Huertas was a visiting lecturer at University of Michigan, then continued as a research fellow at the University of Barcelona.[6]
Huertas worked as an editor at various publishing houses[6] and also taught creative writing at the Autonomous University of Madrid.[6][7] She wrote for Spanish cultural magazines and in 2010–2012 wrote opinion pieces for the Público,[2] later becoming a columnist for ElDiario.es.[6]
In 1993, Huertas won the Casa de las Américas Prize for the essay Ensayo de un cambio: la narrativa cubana en la década de los 80.[3][8] She then published a short story collection called A tragos (1996) and continued writing fiction with a number of novels,[2] such as Una noche en Amalfi which was compared by RTVE to the works of Patricia Highsmith.[9] Her last novel, El sótano, was published posthumously by Editorial Anagrama in 2023.[3][10] Writing for El País, Carlos Zanón called it a "beautiful testament",[3] while Anna María Iglesia described it in El Mundo as a "wonderful invitation to reflect on the uncertainty of life and writing".[11]
Huertas died on 25 December 2022, in Madrid.[8][10]
Works
Essays
- Ensayo de un cambio: la narrativa cubana en la década de los 80, 1994
Short story collections
- A tragos, 1996[2]
Novels
- Déjenme dormir en paz, 1998
- Por eso envejecemos tan deprisa, 2001
- En el fondo. Pide una copa paga Proust, 2009[2]
- Una noche en Amalfi, 2012[12]
- El desconcierto, 2017
- El sótano, 2023[3]
References
- ^ "Begoña Huertas: libros y biografía autora". Lecturalia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ a b c d e f "Begoña Huertas - Biografía y mejores libros". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2022-12-30. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ a b c d e Zanón, Carlos (2023-02-04). "'El sótano', el hermoso testamento de Begoña Huertas". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ "BEGOÑA HUERTAS MV071". El Mundo. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ "El sótano: una novela de Begoña Huertas". ccmagazine.es. 2023-01-26. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ a b c d "Begoña Huertas Uhagón". Real Academia de España en Roma (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ "Begoña Huertas". Azkuna Zentroa (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ a b Lombardía, Sandra F. (2022-11-27). "Fallece a los 57 años la escritora gijonesa Begoña Huertas". La Nueva España (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ "Página dos entrevista Begoña Huertas". RTVE. 2013-01-06.
- ^ a b "La novela póstuma de la española Begoña Huertas: un viaje entre culpas, enfermedad y una compleja relación con el cuerpo". infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ "'El sótano' de Begoña Huertas, el mejor de los legados". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2023-01-18. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ "De vuelta en Radio 5: Una noche en Amalfi | RTVE Play". RTVE (in Spanish). 2012-10-15. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
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- 1965 births
- 2022 deaths
- 20th-century Spanish women writers
- 21st-century Spanish women writers
- 20th-century Spanish novelists
- 21st-century Spanish novelists
- Writers from Asturias
- Autonomous University of Madrid alumni
- Spanish philologists
- Spanish women essayists
- 20th-century Spanish journalists
- 21st-century Spanish journalists
- 21st-century Spanish women journalists
- Spanish women columnists
- People from Gijón
- 20th-century Spanish women journalists