Paula Contreras Márquez (Aldea de Los Zapateros, Córdoba, Andalusia, 8 January 1911 – Puerto Real, Cádiz, 3 February 2008) was a novelist and author of short stories and tales. Marquez was honored by a route around the town of Moriles, which was depicted in many of her notable works.

Selected works

* ''El brujo del tiempo'' (early 1950s) * ''Cangilones de noria'' (1951) * ''Historias de un pueblo sin historia'' (1952) (Prologue by

Federico Mayor Zaragoza Federico Mayor Zaragoza (27 January 1934 – 19 December 2024) was a Spanish scientist, scholar, politician, diplomat and poet. He served as the director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) f ...

) * ''El Majuelo'' (1952) * ''Americanos en Rota (1957)'' * ''Una aventura sin importancia'' (1967) * ''Laguna Grande'' (1992) * ''Moriles, trazos de su historia'' (1995) * ''La botica de la calle de la plaza'' (unfinished, recent years) * ''Un mes de permiso'' (undated) * ''La chavala''(1962)

References

1911 births 2008 deaths People from Córdoba, Spain Spanish novelists Spanish women novelists Women writers from Catalonia Spanish women short story writers Spanish short story writers 20th-century Spanish novelists 20th-century Spanish women writers 20th-century short story writers {{Spain-writer-stub