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Eugenia Rico is a Spanish novelist, poet and journalist.
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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Rico, Eugenia 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
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 inOviedo
Oviedo (; ast, Uviéu ) is the capital city of the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain and the administrative and commercial centre of the region. It is also the name of the municipality that contains the city. Oviedo is located ap ...
, 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 País
''El País'' (; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. ''El País'' is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA.
It is the second most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . ''El Pa ...
, El Mundo, La Revista de occidente, La Nouvelle Revue Francaise and Der Spiegel
''Der Spiegel'' (, lit. ''"The Mirror"'') is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. With a weekly circulation of 695,100 copies, it was the largest such publication in Europe in 2011. It was founded in 1947 by John Seymour Chaloner ...
. 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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Rico, Eugenia 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