Lucía Etxebarría

Lucía María Echevarría de Asteinza[1] (7 December 1966 in Valencia), known as Lucía Etxebarria, is a Spanish writer, winner of Premio Nadal in 1998 and Premio Planeta de Novela in 2004.

Lucía María Echevarría de Asteinza[2] was born in Valencia in 1966, daughter of José Ignacio Echevarría Gorroño and Lucía de Asteinza Stocke, of Basque parents as their names suggests, the youngest of seven children.

Etxebarría was a typo that she liked and adopted as a nom de plume, though it is not used in all her books.

Her first novel, Amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas (1997) received Ana María Matute's support, and situated her in the Generacion Kronen scope.

The following year her second novel, Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes, won the Nadal Prize.