Rosa Montero

The contraction of tuberculosis forced her to remain at home between the ages of five and nine, and she began reading and writing extensively during that time.

In 1977, she began publishing interviews in the Sunday edition of the paper, and the following year, she won the "Manuel del Arco" prize for her work and was the first woman to receive it.

In 1980, she won the National Journalism Prize for her articles and literary reports, and that year, she was named editor-in-chief of El País Semanal.

Her first children's story, El nido de los sueños (The Nest of Dreams), was published in 1992, and in the following years, she released Bella y Oscura (Beautiful and Dark, 1993) and La Vida desnuda (The Naked Life, 1994).

Her short story El Abuelo (The Grandfather) was included in Rainy Days - Días de lluvia: Short Stories by Contemporary Spanish Women Writers, an anthology edited by Montserrat Lunati, together with a translation into English.