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Trini de Figueroa
Trini de Figueroa (1918–1972) was a popular Spanish writer from the Valencian Community of more than 125 romance novels since 1946. She was translated into Portuguese, French and English. BiographyTrinidad de Figueroa y Gómez was born on 17 May 1918 in Valencia, Spain, the daughter of Marcos de Figueroa and Trinidad Gómez y Padilla, both Andalusians. An exceptional student, she studied Higher Baccalaureate at the Provincial Institute of Valencia (now, Instituto Lluís Vives). She received her B.A. degree in 1936, having finished with Honors in the State Examination, after a record full of honors. She married Leopoldo Baldomero Botella y Gómez de Luzón with whom she started a family. She began publishing romantic novels in 1946, encouraged by her former literature teacher, who at that time was publishing for Editorial Pueyo using a pseudonym. In addition to the Pueyo publishing house, her novels were published by Bruguera, Rollán and Editorial Andina. She lived in Ibiza. On 7 January 1972 she died in Ibiza, when the Iberia Flight 602 she was traveling on suffered an accident that claimed the lives of more than a hundred people.[1][2] Selected works
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