She’s dead at the age of 61 Almudena Grandes. The famous Spanish writer, also known for her political commitment, had revealed a month ago on the columns of the Pais di have had cancer for a year. Born in Madrid in 1960, she gained the attention of the general public in 1989 with ‘The Ages of Lulu’, which the following year inspired the homonymous film by Bigas Luna starring Francesca Neri. The famous book, translated into 19 languages, earned her the La sonrisa vertical award.
In 1991 he published ‘Ti I’ll call Friday’, which however was not very successful. Critics received instead in 1995 ‘Malena a name from Tango’, brought to the cinema by Gerardo Herrero. Another film by Juan Vicente Córdoba is taken from the collection of short stories ‘Models of a woman’ of 1997, the year in which he received the Rossone d’oro Award in Italy. In 1998 he published the novel ‘Atlante di Geografia Umana’, translated into Italy in 2001. ‘The difficult years’ (2003) and ‘Too much love’ (2004), translated and published for the Guanda publishing house, came out later. Also for this publishing house are released ‘Cuore di ice’ (2008), ‘Inés e llegria’ (2011) and ‘The ideal daughter’ (2020).
In her literary work we find the city of Madrid and the family life of the bourgeoisie, but Almudena Grandes has always avoided moral discourses, preferring the inner analysis of the characters. In 2021 he began ‘Episodes of an endless war’, an ambitious series of novels in which he revisited the worst of the tragic 20th century. Her latest published book is ‘The Mother of Frankenstein’, in which she narrated the life of Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira, who beat her daughter, Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira. La Grandes, married to the poet Luis Garcìa Montero, director of the Cervantes Institute, had recently made known the disease. “We lose one of the leading writers of our time,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez recalled her in a Tweet.