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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 1965 in Gijón. She completed her doctorate in Spanish philology at the Autonomous University of Madrid, specializing in Latin American literature. Huertas was a visiting lecturer at University of Michigan, then continued as a research fellow at the University of Barcelona.

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

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. She then published a short story collection called A tragos (1996) and continued writing fiction with a number of novels, such as Una noche en Amalfi which was compared by RTVE to the works of Patricia Highsmith. Her last novel, El sótano, was published posthumously by Editorial Anagrama in 2023. Writing for El País, Carlos Zanón [es] called it a "beautiful testament", while Anna María Iglesia [es] described it in El Mundo as a "wonderful invitation to reflect on the uncertainty of life and writing".

Huertas died on 25 December 2022, in Madrid.

Works

Essays

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

Short story collections

• A tragos, 1996

Novels

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

References

1. "Begoña Huertas: libros y biografía autora". Lecturalia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
2. ^ "Begoña Huertas - Biografía y mejores libros". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2022-12-30. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
3. ^ 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. ^ "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. ^ 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. ^ "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.

• 1965 births
• 2022 deaths
• 20th-century Spanish women writers
• 21st-century Spanish women writers
• 20th-century Spanish novelists
• 21st-century Spanish novelists
• Writers from Asturias
• Autonomous University of Madrid alumni
• Spanish philologists
• Spanish women essayists
• 20th-century Spanish journalists
• 21st-century Spanish journalists
• 21st-century Spanish women journalists
• Spanish women columnists
• People from Gijón
• 20th-century Spanish women journalists