Begoña Huertas

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Huertas and the second or maternal family name is Uhagón.
Begoña Huertas
Born(1965-08-04)4 August 1965
Gijón, Spain
Died25 December 2022(2022-12-25) (aged 57)
Madrid, Spain
Occupationnovelist, journalist

Begoña Huertas Uhagón (1965–2022) was a Spanish writer and journalist. She won the Casa de las Américas Prize for her essay Ensayo de un cambio: la narrativa cubana en la década de los 80.

Biography

Begoña Huertas was born on 4 August[1] 1965 in Gijón.[2][3] She completed her doctorate in Spanish philology at the Autonomous University of Madrid,[2][4] specializing in Latin American literature.[5] Huertas was a visiting lecturer at University of Michigan, then continued as a research fellow at the University of Barcelona.[6]

Huertas worked as an editor at various publishing houses[6] and also taught creative writing at the Autonomous University of Madrid.[6][7] She wrote for Spanish cultural magazines and in 2010–2012 wrote opinion pieces for the Público,[2] later becoming a columnist for ElDiario.es.[6]

In 1993, Huertas won the Casa de las Américas Prize for the essay Ensayo de un cambio: la narrativa cubana en la década de los 80.[3][8] She then published a short story collection called A tragos (1996) and continued writing fiction with a number of novels,[2] such as Una noche en Amalfi which was compared by RTVE to the works of Patricia Highsmith.[9] Her last novel, El sótano, was published posthumously by Editorial Anagrama in 2023.[3][10] Writing for El País, Carlos Zanón [es] called it a "beautiful testament",[3] while Anna María Iglesia [es] described it in El Mundo as a "wonderful invitation to reflect on the uncertainty of life and writing".[11]

Huertas died on 25 December 2022, in Madrid.[8][10]

Works

Essays

  • Ensayo de un cambio: la narrativa cubana en la década de los 80, 1994

Short story collections

  • A tragos, 1996[2]

Novels

  • Déjenme dormir en paz, 1998
  • Por eso envejecemos tan deprisa, 2001
  • En el fondo. Pide una copa paga Proust, 2009[2]
  • Una noche en Amalfi, 2012[12]
  • El desconcierto, 2017
  • El sótano, 2023[3]

References

  1. ^ "Begoña Huertas: libros y biografía autora". Lecturalia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Begoña Huertas - Biografía y mejores libros". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2022-12-30. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  3. ^ a b c d e Zanón, Carlos (2023-02-04). "'El sótano', el hermoso testamento de Begoña Huertas". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  4. ^ "BEGOÑA HUERTAS MV071". El Mundo. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  5. ^ "El sótano: una novela de Begoña Huertas". ccmagazine.es. 2023-01-26. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  6. ^ a b c d "Begoña Huertas Uhagón". Real Academia de España en Roma (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  7. ^ "Begoña Huertas". Azkuna Zentroa (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  8. ^ a b Lombardía, Sandra F. (2022-11-27). "Fallece a los 57 años la escritora gijonesa Begoña Huertas". La Nueva España (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  9. ^ "Página dos entrevista Begoña Huertas". RTVE. 2013-01-06.
  10. ^ a b "La novela póstuma de la española Begoña Huertas: un viaje entre culpas, enfermedad y una compleja relación con el cuerpo". infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  11. ^ "'El sótano' de Begoña Huertas, el mejor de los legados". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2023-01-18. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  12. ^ "De vuelta en Radio 5: Una noche en Amalfi | RTVE Play". RTVE (in Spanish). 2012-10-15. Retrieved 2023-03-15.