Soledad Puértolas Villanueva (born 3 February 1947 in Saragossa) is a Spanish writer,[1] and on 28 January 2010 was named an inmortal or member of the Real Academia Española.[2] She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela.
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Soledad Puértolas
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Puértolas in the Guadalajara International Book Fair in 2017
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| Born | Soledad Puértolas Villanueva (1947-02-03) 3 February 1947 (age 77)
Zaragoza, Spain
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| Seat g of the Real Academia Española | |
| Assumed office 21 November 2010[a] | |
| Preceded by | Antonio Colino [es] |
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Puértolas started studying Political Sciences in Madrid, 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.
Puértolas was elected to Seat g of the Real Academia Española on 28 January 2010, she took up her seat on 21 November the same year.[3] She filled the seat formerly occupied by Antonio Colino.
Her short story Viejas historias (Tales from the Past) 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]