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Eugenia Rico is a Spanish novelist, poet and journalist.
Life
Coming from a poor family she won her first literary award at the age of five. She studied Law and International Relations in Oviedo, Toulouse and Brussels but gave up everything to dedicate herself to literature. She traveled through the whole world, including India, South America, China and Africa.
She started writing and, after a difficult period in which she even sold flowers in the street, she worked in the reconversion of mining communities. Her first novel "Sad Lovers" was a great success winning her wide recognition. Afterwards she published "The White Death" (dealing with the loss of his little brother).
She contributes to El PaÃs, El Mundo, La Revista de occidente, La Nouvelle Revue Francaise and Der Spiegel. She has been the first Spaniard selected as a resident in the prestigious International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
External links
- Official website
- Leo Zelada talks with Eugenia Rico, via culturamas.es
- A place in the word. 1 via youtube.com
- A place in the word. 2 via youtube.com
- A place in the word. 3 via youtube.com
- Eugenia Rico's blog
- Eugenia Rico in the University of Iowa famous Writer's Workshop
- 1972 births
- Living people
- Spanish women novelists
- Magic realism writers
- Spanish women journalists
- Spanish women poets
- Spanish women short story writers
- Spanish short story writers
- 21st-century Spanish women writers
- People from Oviedo
- Writers from Asturias
- 21st-century Spanish novelists
- 21st-century Spanish poets
- International Writing Program alumni
- 21st-century short story writers