[1][2] The descendant of a family deeply rooted in Palencia, Enriqueta Antolín moved to Toledo at age 6, where she lived a good part of her life.
Beginning in 1986 she contributed to the newspaper El País, and despite writing from her childhood, it was not until 1992 when she published her first novel, La gata con alas, which received the Tigre Juan Award for the year's best novel in Spanish.
[3] La gata con alas is a story of love and heartbreak set in postwar Spain that started a trilogy completed with Regiones devastadas (1995) and Mujer de aire (1997).
[6] She collaborated with the artist Marisa Gonzalez, writing the text of her book Seréis como Dioses.
Considered a pertinacious nonconformist, Antolín's work often contains a mixture of reality and fiction with which the author pretends, as she put it, "to disconcert the reader.