Lourdes Ortiz (born 1943, Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish writer of novels, plays, poems and essays.
In 1999, she began working on a television show called "Así es la Vida", which translates to "This is How Life Is", that accompanied the morning news on the network Telecinco.
She subsequently published Picadura mortal (1979) which entails how a detective named Bárbara Arenas investigates the disappearance of a businessman in the Canary Islands.
In this novel, the author utilizes archaic language in order to recreate the medieval atmosphere as well as to describe the strong and ambitious nature of the protagonist.
In the field of drama, Lourdes Ortiz has published Las murals de Jericó (1980), Penteo (1983), and Fedra (1984).