Inés Marful (born 1961), also known as Inés Marful Amor, is a Spanish scholar, writer, and visual artist from

Asturias Asturias (; ; ) officially the Principality of Asturias, is an autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in northwest Spain. It is coextensive with the provinces of Spain, province of Asturias and contains some of the territory t ...

, known for her scholarly work about

Federico García Lorca Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a g ...

. Her novel ''Cuatro Cuentos de Amor y El Intocable Absurdo'' won the 2008 Casino Mieres Novel Award.

Biography

Marful was born in 1961 in

Mieres Mieres is a municipality of Asturias, northern Spain, with approximately 38,000 inhabitants. The municipality of Mieres is made up of the capital, Mieres del Camino and the villages of Baíña, Figaredo, Cenera, Loredo, La Peña, La Rebollada, ...

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. She holds a doctorate in

Spanish literature Spanish literature is literature ( Spanish poetry, prose, and drama) written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the Kingdom of Spain. Its development coincides and frequently intersects with that of other ...

from the

University of Oviedo The University of Oviedo (, Asturian: ''Universidá d'Uviéu'') is a public university in Asturias (Spain). It is the only university in the region. It has three campus and research centres, located in Oviedo, Gijón and Mieres. History Th ...

, and has worked as a professor at the

and

University of Valladolid The University of Valladolid is a public university located in the city of Valladolid, Valladolid province, autonomous region of Castile and Leon, Spain. Established in the 13th century, it is one of the oldest universities in the world. The ...

. After 1999, Marful worked as a political counselor in the

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and as a

photojournalist Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (suc ...

and

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Writing

Marful has written scholarly analyses of the works of

, as well as several novels. Her work includes a critical essay titled "Passion and Death in Lorquian Drama" (Pasión y muerte en el drama lorquiano), published in the 1987 collection ''A Federico García Lorca''. She is the author of ''Lorca y sus dobles'' (Lorca and his doubles), an essay described by

Manuel Alvar Manuel Alvar (July 8, 1923 – August 13, 2001) was a Spanish linguist, historian, and university professor who specialized in the study of dialectology and philology of the Spanish language. Throughout his career, Alvar oversaw and influenced t ...

in ''

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'' as "the definitive work on the poet from Granada". Her novels include ''Te sucederá lo que al río en primavera'' (You will be as the river in springtime), published in 1998 and described as a "misiva de una mujer a su madre fallecida" ("letter from a woman to her deceased mother") by Ramón Massó Ortega in ''Historia Sinóptica de la Literatura Española''. She also wrote ''Instrucciones para olvidar'' (Instructions to forget), published in 2008 and described as "una magnífica novela que huele a agua de lluvia y de mar" ("a magnificent novel that smells of rain and sea water") by María Castrejón in ''Que Me Estoy Muriendo De Agua: Guía de narrativa lésbica española''. Her 2008 novel ''Cuatro Cuentos de Amor y El Intocable Absurdo'' (Four tales of love and the untouchable absurd) won the 2008 Casino Mieres Novel Award. She is the third woman to win the prize since the awards were founded in 1980.

Visual art

Marful has worked with the Swiss photographer Su Alonso to create artwork as "Alonso y Marful." As of 2022, she is the director of Herrería de la Luna, a center for art and poetry, at the Free University of Boimouro.

Selected publications

Literary theory

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Novels

* (You will be as the river in springtime) - winner of the ''

La Voz de Galicia ''La Voz de Galicia'' () is a Spanish daily newspaper owned by the Corporación Voz de Galicia. ''La Voz'' is the newspaper with the highest circulation in Galicia and the eighth-highest circulation of the general-interest daily newspaper in Spa ...

'' Novel Award * (Instructions to forget) * (Four tales of love and the untouchable absurd) - winner of the Casino Mieres Novel Award

References

External links

Marful's LinkedIn profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Marful, Ines Living people 1961 births University of Oviedo alumni 20th-century Spanish women writers 21st-century Spanish women writers Spanish women academics Spanish women novelists Writers from Asturias