Nuria Barrios (born 1962) is a

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. Her work spans genres, including both fiction and non-fiction. Her poetry collection ''El hilo de agua'' (Algaida, 2004) won the

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. Among her other works are the short story collections ''Amores patológicos'' (Ediciones B, 1998 / Punto de Lectura, 2002) and ''El zoo sentimental'' (Alfaguara, 2000 / Punto de Lectura, 2002). She has also written a travel book titled ''Balearia'' (Plaza y Janés, 2000). Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies. She has been translated into Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Croatian and

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. She contributes regularly to Babelia, the literary supplement of ''

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''. Following the success of her novel ''El alfabeto de los pájaros'' (Seix Barral, 2011), she published another book of poems ''Nostalgia de Odiseo'' (Vandalia, 2012). More recent work is the short story collection ''Ocho centímetros'' (Páginas de Espuma, 2015). She translated Amanda Gorman's book

Call Us What We Carry ''Call Us What We Carry'' is a poetry collection by Amanda Gorman, published December 7, 2021, by Viking Press. The book landed the first position on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller List. It was translated into Spanish by Nuria Barrios in 202 ...

(Viking Books, 2021) into Spanish under the title ''Mi Nombre Es Nostros'' (Lumen, 2022).

Selected works

* ''Ocho centímetros'' * ''El alfabeto de los pájaros'' * ''Nostalgia de Odiseo'' * ''El zoo sentimental'' * ''Amores patológicos'' * ''Balearia'' * ''El hilo de agua''

References

Writers from Madrid 1962 births 21st-century Spanish novelists Spanish women poets Spanish women short story writers Spanish short story writers Living people 21st-century Spanish women writers 21st-century short story writers {{Spain-writer-stub