Elia Barceló
Elia Barceló | |
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| Born | 29 January 1957 |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Occupation | academic then writer |
Elia Barceló or Elia Eisterer-Barceló (born 29 January 1957)[1] was a Spanish academic in Austria and she then became a successful full-time writer. She writes in different genres and her work has been adapted for film.
Life
[edit]Barceló was born in Elda in 1957. She became an academic and earned her doctorate in Innsbruck, Austria in 1995. She remained in Austria, working as a professor of Spanish literature. She has won a number of awards.[2]
Literary genre and topics
[edit]She started writing science fiction in 1981. She is well regarded as an SF writer in Spanish[2] She continued to publish crime, horror, gothic and historical fiction novels as well as essays.[3]
Her work has been translated into French, Italian, German, Catalan, English, Greek, Hungarian, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Croatian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Basque, Czech, Russian and Esperanto.[4][5] Memory, love and death are recurring themes in her work, where she also vindicates the role of mature women.[6]
Her Heart of Tango was published in an English translation in 2010.[7]
In 2018 she published Las largas sombras which is a story based around a group of women friends who discover the remains of a friend who disappeared two decades before. The story has since been adapted into a film of the same name by Clara Roquet which was on the Disney+ network in 2023.[8]
Her horror story, Frankenstein Effect, won the 2022 Hache prize after a popular vote by young readers. The story is based around time travel where discrimination can be seen and its concludes withn a nod to the work of Mary Shelley who invented the Frankenstein monster.[9] In 2022 she was invited to Cartagena and "Cartegena Negra" to appear in a round table with Empar Fernández, María Suré and Teresa Cardona.[10]
Awards
[edit]- Premio Ignotus, science fiction, 1991
- Premio TP de oro, young adult literature, 1997 and 2006
- Premio Internacional, science fiction novella, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Premio UPC), 1993
- Premio Celsius, 2014
- Premio Ignotus, 2018
- Premio Edebé, children's and young adult literature[11]
- Hache prize, 2022 for The Frankenstein Effect.[10]
Works
[edit]- Sagrada. Ediciones B, Barcelona, 1989.
- Consecuencias Naturales. Madrid, 1994.
- El mundo de Yarek, premio UPC 1993, Barcelona, 1994. Editorial Lengua de Trapo .
- El caso del Artista Cruel, premio Edebé, 1998.
- La mano de Fatma, 2001.
- El vuelo del hipogrifo, 2002. Editorial Lengua de Trapo.
- El caso del crimen de la ópera, 2002.
- El secreto del orfebre, 2003. Editorial Lengua de Trapo.
- Si un día vuelves a Brasil, 2003. Alba Editorial.
- Disfraces terribles. Barcelona, 2004. Editorial Lengua de Trapo.
- El contrincante, 2004.
- Cordeluna, Premio Edebé de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, 2007.
- Corazón de Tango, 2007. Ed. 451 Editores.
- El almacén de las palabras terribles, Zaragoza: Edelvives, 2007.
- Caballeros de Malta, 2007. Edebé-Periscopio.
- La roca de Is, 2010, Edebé-Edición Nómadas.
- Las largas sombras, 2009. Ediciones Ámbar (reed. Roca, 2018)
- Anima mundi, 2013. Ediciones Destino.
- Por ti daré mi vida, 2015. Edebé.
- La Maga y otros cuentos crueles, 2015. Cazador de ratas.
- El color del silencio, 2017, ed. Roca.
- El eco de la piel, 2019, ed. Roca.
- El efecto Frankenstein, 2019, ed. Edebé. [10]
- La noche de plata, 2020, Roca Editorial.
- Muerte en Santa Rita, 2021, Roca Editorial.
- Amores que matan, 2023, Roca Editorial.
- El síndrome Frankenstein, 2023, Edebé.
- La soga de cristal, 2024, Roca Editorial.
References
[edit]- ^ Játiva, Juan Manuel (2013-08-25). ""A la gente le gustaría tener poderes especiales y cortar cabezas"". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
- ^ a b "Elia Barceló". Strange Horizons. 2016-10-23. Retrieved 2024-11-27.
- ^ "Interview with Elia Barceló - Blog del Instituto Cervantes de Dublín Blog del Instituto Cervantes de Dublín". Retrieved 2024-07-29.
- ^ "literary reading ::Today we are reading with: Elia Barceló, Kevin Barry, Christopher Domínguez Michael, Keith Ridgway and María Negroni ::Instituto Cervantes de Dublín". dublin.cervantes.es. Retrieved 2024-07-29.
- ^ "Elia Barceló reivindica el papel de las mujeres "de cierta edad"". Tribuna Feminista (in European Spanish). 25 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
- ^ Oliva, Ángeles (2023-04-14). "Elia Barceló: "La ciencia ficción sirve para enfrentarnos con dilemas éticos que no creíamos que fueran posibles"". ElDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-07-29.
- ^ Frye, Elia Barceló ; translated from the Spanish by David (2010). Heart of Tango. London: MacLehose. ISBN 1906694605.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Clara Roquet finishes shooting Las largas sombras". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. 2023-06-29. Retrieved 2024-11-27.
- ^ "Alfredo Sanzol y Elia Barceló se alzan con los Premios Mandarache y Hache 2022". Ayuntamiento de Cartagena (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-27.
- ^ a b c "Elia Barceló participa este miércoles en Cartagena Negra tras conquistar el Premio Hache". Ayuntamiento de Cartagena (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-27.
- ^ Abella, Anna. "Maite Carranza y Elia Barceló se llevan los premios Edebé" (in Spanish). El Periodico.
- 1957 births
- Living people
- People from Elda
- Spanish women writers
- Writers from the Valencian Community
- University of Alicante alumni
- Spanish science fiction writers
- 20th-century Spanish writers
- 21st-century Spanish writers
- 21st-century Spanish novelists
- 20th-century Spanish women writers
- 21st-century Spanish women writers