| Begoña Huertas | |
| Birth Date: | 4 August 1965 |
| Birth Place: | Gijón, Spain |
| Death Place: | Madrid, Spain |
| Occupation: | novelist, journalist |
Begoña Huertas Uhagón (1965–2022) was a Spanish writer and journalist. She won the Casa de las Américas Prize for her essay Ensayo de un cambio: la narrativa cubana en la década de los 80.
Begoña Huertas was born on 4 August[1] 1965 in Gijón.[2] [3] She completed her doctorate in Spanish philology at the Autonomous University of Madrid,[4] specializing in Latin American literature.[5] Huertas was a visiting lecturer at University of Michigan, then continued as a research fellow at the University of Barcelona.[6]
Huertas worked as an editor at various publishing houses and also taught creative writing at the Autonomous University of Madrid.[7] She wrote for Spanish cultural magazines and in 2010–2012 wrote opinion pieces for the Público, later becoming a columnist for ElDiario.es.
In 1993, Huertas won the Casa de las Américas Prize for the essay Ensayo de un cambio: la narrativa cubana en la década de los 80.[8] She then published a short story collection called A tragos (1996) and continued writing fiction with a number of novels, such as Una noche en Amalfi which was compared by RTVE to the works of Patricia Highsmith.[9] Her last novel, El sótano, was published posthumously by Editorial Anagrama in 2023. Writing for El País, called it a "beautiful testament", while described it in El Mundo as a "wonderful invitation to reflect on the uncertainty of life and writing".[10]
Huertas died on 25 December 2022, in Madrid.[11]