Almudena Grandes





Almudena Grandes

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May 07, 1960 in Madrid, Spain

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She studied Geography and History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is married to the poet Luis García Montero. In 1989 she won the La Sonrisa Vertical prize with her erotic novel Las edades de Lulú, which has been translated into several languages. Bigas Luna made a movie based on this book, as did Gerardo Herrero with Malena es un nombre de tango and Juan Vicente Córdoba with El lenguaje de los balcones in his film Aunque tú no lo sepas.

As Emilie L. Bergmann said, her novel Las edades de Lulú (1989) "represented a breakthrough for eroticism in women's writing".

Her books speak about the Spanish people in the last quarter of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st century. She shows in them a great realism and an intens...more


Average rating: 3.59 · 1,322 ratings · 109 reviews · 11 distinct works
Las edades de Lulú
3.28 of 5 stars 3.28 avg rating — 433 ratings — published 1989 — 31 editions
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Malena es un nombre de tango
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 1994 — 11 editions
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El corazón helado
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions
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Castillos de cartón
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions
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Atlas de geografía humana
3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1998 — 12 editions
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Modelos de mujer
3.34 of 5 stars 3.34 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2002 — 15 editions
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Inés y la alegría (Episodio...
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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Te Llamare Viernes
2.69 of 5 stars 2.69 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
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El lector de Julio Verne
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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“Cuando pasa algo malo, pero malo de verdad, por mucho que llores, lo peor no es llorar, que eso a veces está bien, porque te quedas nuevo, lo peor empieza cuando no puedes llorar más, y entonces te das cuenta de que la tristeza es algo sucio, como un grumo gris, espeso, una pelota de barro dentro de los pulmones, que pesa, y la notas al respirar, todo el tiempo.”
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“Y estaba sola, me sentía sola, incapaz de hablar, que es quizás la peor forma de la soledad.”
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