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Trini de Figueroa (1918-1972) was a popular Spanish writer of more than 125 romance novels since 1946. She was translated into Portuguese, French and English.

Biography

Trinidad de Figueroa y Gómez was born on May 17, 1918 in Valencia, Spain, the daughter of Marcos de Figueroa and Trinidad Gómez y Padilla, both Andalusians. An exceptional student, she studied Higher Baccalaureate at the Provincial Institute of Valencia (now, Luis Vives Institute). She received her B.A. degree in 1936, having finished with Honors in the State Examination, after a record full of honors. She married Leopoldo Baldomero Botella y Gómez de Luzón with whom she started a family. She began publishing romantic novels in 1946, encouraged by her former literature teacher, who at that time was publishing for Editorial Pueyo using a pseudonym. In addition to the Pueyo publishing house, her novels were published by Bruguera, Rollán and Editorial Andina. She lived in Ibiza. On January 7, 1972, she died in Ibiza, when the Iberia Flight 602 she was traveling on suffered an accident that claimed the lives of more than a hundred people.

References

1. "Trini de Figueroa". biblioromance.es. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
2. "Trinidad de Figueroa y Gómez". dbe.rah.es (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia. Retrieved 14 December 2024.

• 1918 births
• 1972 deaths
• 20th-century Spanish novelists
• 20th-century Spanish women writers
• Spanish women novelists
• Romantic fiction novelists
• Spanish-language writers
• Spanish romantic fiction writers