Care Santos Explained
| Care Santos |
| Native Name: | Macarena Santos i Torres |
| Native Name Lang: | spanish |
| Birth Date: | 8 April 1970 |
| Language: | Catalan, Spanish |
| Nationality: | Spanish |
| Alma Mater: | University of Barcelona |
| Genre: | novel |
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Macarena Santos i Torres, (born 8 April 1970) is a Spanish writer who writes under the name "Care Santos". She writes in both Catalan and Spanish languages,[1] for both young and adult readers.[2]
Biography
Care Santos studied law and Spanish philology at the University of Barcelona. She started her career as a journalist at Diari de Barcelona and later worked for the papers ABC and El Mundo. In 1995, Santos was recognized for her first book, a collection of novels with the title Cuentos cítricos. Her next books were Trigal con cuervos and Los ojos del lobo.
Awards and honors
- In 2007, her book Dissection received the Carmen Conde Women's Poetry Award,[3]
- She was nominated for a for La muerte de Venus. The latter book was translated into several languages.
- In 2013, she won the Joaquim Ruyra Award for best youth book for her work No em preguntis qui. sóc.[4]
- On 20 January 2014, Care Santos was awarded the Premi de les Lletres Catalanes Ramon Llull Award for the book Desig de xocolata, which was released on 6 March 2014.[5]
- In 2017, she was awarded the Premio Nadal.
Selected works
- El tango del perdedor (1997)
- Trigal con cuervos (1999)
- Aprender a huir (2000)
- La muerte de Kurt Cobain (1997)
- Okupada (1997)
- Te diré quién eres (1997)
- La ruta del huracán (1999)
- Krysis (2001)
- Operación Virgo (2002)
- Laluna.com (2003)
- Los ojos del lobo (2004)
- El circuito de Montecarlo (2005)
- El anillo de Irina (2005)
- El dueño de las sombras (2006)
- La muerte de Venus (2007)
- Habitaciones cerradas (2012),
Works in English
- Desire for chocolate, translator Julie Wark, Richmond, Surrey Alma Books, 2016.,
- Dissection, translator Lawrence Schimel, New York: A Midsummer Nights Press, 2014.,
Notes and References
- http://www.enciclopedia.cat/enciclopèdies/gran-enciclopèdia-catalana/EC-GEC-21375350.xml Gran Catalana
- Web site: Medverkande 2014 — Bok & Bibliotek . 5 October 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141006110228/http://www.bokmassan.se/sv/bokmassan/arets-medverkande/?person=105863 . October 6, 2014.
- Web site: Care Santos, premiada per lobra poètica Disección . Capgrós . Spanish . 19 June 2007 . 24 October 2018.
- Web site: Vicenç Pagès guanya el Sant Jordi amb una novel·la sobre la precarietat. VilaWeb.cat. 5 October 2014.
- Web site: Care Santos, premi Ramon Llull. El Periódico. 30 January 2014 . 5 October 2014.
