Elia Barceló or Elia Eisterer-Barceló (born 29 January 1957) is a Spanish academic and author who lives in Austria.

Life

Barceló was born in

Elda Elda is a city and municipality located in the province of Alicante, Spain. , it has a total population of 55,618 inhabitants, ranking as the 7th most populous city in the province. Elda joins together with the town of Petrer to form a conurbat ...

in 1957. She became an academic and earned her doctorate in

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in 1995. She remained in Austria, working as a professor of Spanish literature. She also writes science fiction novels and works for children. She has won a number of awards. Her ''Heart of Tango'' was published in an English translation in 2010.

Awards

Premio Ignotus Premios Ignotus are annual Spanish literary awards that were created in 1991 by the Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción y Terror (AEFCFT, translation: Spanish Association of Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror). The awards, which ar ...

, science fiction, 1991 * Premio TP de oro, young adult literature, 1997 and 2006 * Premio Internacional, science fiction

novella A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most short stories. The English word ''novella'' derives from the Italian ''novella'' meaning a short story related to true (or apparently so) facts ...

Polytechnic University of Catalonia The Technical University of Catalonia ( ca, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, , es, link=no, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña; UPC), currently referred to as BarcelonaTech, is the largest engineering university in Catalonia, Spai ...

(Premio UPC), 1993 * Premio Celsius, 2014 * Premio Ignotus, 2018 * Premio

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, children's and young adult literature

Selected works

*''Sagrada'', 0000 *''Consecuencias Naturales'', 0000 *''El mundo de Yarek'', 0000 *''El caso del Artista Cruel'', 0000 *''La mano de Fatma'', 0000 *''El vuelo del hipogrifo'', 0000 *''El caso del crimen de la ópera'', 0000 *''El secreto del orfebre'', 0000 *''Disfraces terribles'', 0000 *''El contrincante'', 0000 *''Cordeluna'', 0000 *''Corazón de Tango'', 0000 *''El almacén de las palabras terribles'', 0000 *''La roca de Is'' *''Las largas sombras'', 0000 *''Caballeros de Malta'', 0000 *''Anima mundi'', 0000

References

1957 births Living people People from Elda Spanish women writers {{Spain-writer-stub