Pamplona, Spain
Pamplona (; eu, Iruña or ), historically also known as Pampeluna in English, is the capital city of the Chartered Community of Navarre, in Spain. It is also the third-largest city in the greater Basque cultural region.
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), is a news journalist and the first
Spanish language
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novelist to ever be published by
Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a British publishing, publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.University of Navarra
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, latin_name = Universitas Studiorum Navarrensis
, established = 17 October 1952
, type = Private, Roman Catholic
, chancellor = Fernando Ocáriz Braña
, president = María Iraburu Eliz ...
, where she received an undergraduate degree in journalism, and
George Mason University
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, where she received an MBA in International Transactions. After graduating, she worked as a correspondent for various Spanish publications, including the magazine ''Tiempo de Hoy'', for which she was the
Brussels
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correspondent from 1986 to 1990. While there she eventually became the Director of the Department of Communications at the
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in
Brussels
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. In 1990, she moved to
Washington, D.C.
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where she worked as correspondent for the magazine ''Tribuna de la Actualidad''. In 2002, she then moved to
Miami
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to become the Assignment Editor of
American Airlines
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' Spanish-language magazine ''Nexos''.
Books
In 2011, she released her first novel ''Volver a Morir'', a Spanish-language detective novel based in the city of Miami. Critics have stated that her book represents a crossing of cultural boundaries by placing a Hispanic protagonist (Nelson Montero) in the central role of an American-based mystery. It was also the first Spanish-language novel ever published by the publishing giant
Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a British publishing, publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.