Sara Gallardo

In addition to her numerous newspaper columns and essays, she published five novels, a collection of short stories, several children’s books, and a number of travelogues.

"[4] Greatly affected by the death of her second husband in 1975, she moved with her children to La Cumbre, Córdoba Province, to a house provided by the writer Manuel Mujica Láinez.

Then in 1979, she moved to Barcelona, where she wrote La Rosa en el Viento (The Rose in the Wind), her last book.

She left behind notes for a planned biography of the Jewish intellectual and Carmelite nun, Edith Stein, who was killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942.

El País del Humo ("Land of Smoke")(1977)[6] is a collection of short stories and literary sketches that show a fantastical side that was more associated with her children’s books.