[3] Born into a wealthy family, Elena Quiroga lived with her father in Villoria (Galicia), and was a happy child and teenager.

We can see that in her first novel that she published when she was 20, La Soledad Sonora (1949), in which she narrates the story of a woman from her adolescence until the end of her life.

Even though she did not go to University, Quiroga attended free classes, and worked for many years, 4 to 5 hours a day on her books and texts.

When she moved to Madrid, she wrote an award-winning novel, Viento del Norte (1950), which is about the relationship between a young maid and her master.

[1] In 1954, Quiroga wrote Algo pasa en la calle, where she explores new and more current areas of the genre of the novel.

Elena Quiroga belongs to a generation of writers whose stories about the Spanish Civil War incremented the psychological deepness in the women's testimony in that topic.

In 1983, Elena Quiroga was elected as a member of the Real Academia Española because of her brilliant career and her publications.