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Rebeca Quintáns López (Arzúa, A Coruña, 1964) is a Spanish journalist, research writer and teacher.

Biography

Rebeca Quintáns graduated in Spanish Philology by the University of Santiago de Compostela. She got a doctorate in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid with a thesis about the speech of Juan Carlos I.

Her first book, Un Rey golpe a golpe (A King coup by coup), was released by the publisher Ardi Beltza and signed under the pseudonym of Patricia Sverlo for security reasons. It was the sequel of her doctoral thesis, which in words of the author: "there was so much contrast between the truth of the figure of Juan Carlos and the image created in the media during the Transition that I was looking forward to tell all that".

As a journalist she has written in various media both conventional (Interviú, Tiempo, El Semanal or El Correo Gallego among others) and alternative (Ardi Beltza, Kale Gorria, El Otro País, No a la Guerra or Diagonal). She is also a Secondary school teacher and has worked as an associate professor in the Faculty of Information Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid.

In 2016 she published Juan Carlos I: la biografía sin silencios (Juan Carlos I: the biography without silences), an updated extension of the trajectory of the king emeritus where she reviews different aspects of his life not treated by conventional media.

Books

• Un Rey golpe a golpe. Biografía no autorizada de Juan Carlos de Borbón (2000). Under the pseudonym of Patricia Sverlo.
• Gran Hermano: el precio de la dignidad (2000). With Andrés Sánchez Díaz.
• Juan Carlos I: la biografía sin silencios (2016).

References

1. Rebeca Quintans | Periodista y escritora. La Nueva España. 22 July 2016. (in Spanish)
2. ^ Rebeca Quintans: "El 23-F consiguió su objetivo, el fracaso es relativo". Público. 4 December 2016. (in Spanish)
3. "Para hablar del libro, salíamos de la redacción y le quitábamos la batería a los teléfonos móviles". Público. 14 July 2014. (in Spanish)
4. Rebeca Quintans: “El rey emérito fue un colaborador necesario del 23 F”. Revista R@mbla. 19 June 2016. (in Spanish)
5. ‘Juan Carlos I, la biografía sin silencios’. InfoLibre. 1 May 2016. (in Spanish)
6. "No hay libertad de expresión en España para informar sobre la monarquía". Eldiario.es. 4 November 2016. (in Spanish)
7. Sverlo, Patricia (2000). Un Rey golpe a golpe. Biografía no autorizada de Juan Carlos de Borbón (in Spanish). Ardi Beltza. ISBN 978-84-95659-10-1.
8. Sánchez Díaz, Andrés; Quintáns, Rebeca (2000). Gran Hermano : el precio de la dignidad (in Spanish). Arakatzen. ISBN 978-84-931197-5-1.
9. Quintáns, Rebeca (2016). Juan Carlos I: la biografía sin silencios (in Spanish). Akal. ISBN 978-84-460-4279-2.

• 1964 births
• 21st-century Spanish writers
• Living people
• Spanish journalists
• Spanish republicans
• 21st-century Spanish women journalists
• 21st-century Spanish journalists
• 21st-century Spanish women writers
• Complutense University of Madrid alumni
• Academic staff of the Complutense University of Madrid