About Almudena Grandes
María de la Almudena Grandes Hernández was a Spanish writer. Author of 14 novels and three short-story collections, her work has been translated into twenty languages and frequently adapted to film. She won the National Literature Prize for Narrative and the Prix Méditerranée among other honors. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called her "one of the most important writers of our time." In 2010, she published the novel Inés y la alegría, the first in a series of six novels entitled Episodios de una Guerra Interminable. With Inés y la alegría, she won the "Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz" literature prize.
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