Paloma Sánchez-Garnica (born 1962) is a Spanish writer. She is the winner of the Fernando Lara Novel Award 2016 and the runner-up for

Premio Planeta de Novela The Premio Planeta de Novela is a Spanish literary prize, awarded since 1952 by the Spanish publisher Grupo Planeta to an original unpublished novel written in Spanish. It is one of about 16 literary prizes given by Planeta. Financially, it is the ...

2021.

Early life and education

Paloma Sánchez-Garnica was born in 1962, in

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...

, and grew up in

Zaragoza Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...

. She studied law, geography and history.

Career

Sánchez-Garnica has written

historical novels Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting related to the past events, but is fictional. Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to other ...

with elements of thrillers and mystery fiction. She won the Fernando Lara Novel Award with the novel ''Mi recuerdo es más fuerte que tu olvido'' (2016) and in 2021 became the runner-up for

with ''Últimos días en Berlín''. In 2016, her novel ''La sonata del silencio'' was adapted to TV as '' The Sonata of Silence''.

Works

* ''El gran arcano'', 2006 * ''La brisa de Oriente'', 2009 * ''El alma de las piedras'', 2010 * ''Las tres heridas'', 2012 * ''La sonata del silencio'', 2014 * ''Mi recuerdo es más fuerte que tu olvido'', 2016 * ''La Sospecha de Sofía'', 2019 * ''Últimos días en Berlín,'' 2021

References

1962 births Living people 20th-century Spanish women writers 21st-century Spanish women writers 20th-century Spanish novelists 21st-century Spanish novelists Writers from Madrid People from Zaragoza {{Spain-writer-stub