Enriqueta Antolín Explained

Enriqueta Antolín
Birth Name:	Enriqueta Antolín Gimeno
Birth Place:	Palencia, Spain
Death Place:	Madrid, Spain
Occupation:	Journalist, writer
Spouse:	Andrés Berlanga
Awards:	Tigre Juan Award (1992)

Enriqueta Antolín Gimeno (1941 – 26 November 2013) was a Spanish journalist and writer, best known for her novels.^{[1] [2]}

Biography

The descendant of a family deeply rooted in Palencia, Enriqueta Antolín moved to Toledo at age 6, where she lived a good part of her life. There she studied teaching, although later her vocation for journalism and literature prevailed.

Beginning in 1986 she contributed to the newspaper El País, and despite writing from her childhood, it was not until 1992 when she published her first novel, La gata con alas, which received the Tigre Juan Award for the year's best novel in Spanish.^[3] La gata con alas is a story of love and heartbreak set in postwar Spain that started a trilogy completed with Regiones devastadas (1995) and Mujer de aire (1997).^[4]

With these first three works, she earned recognition as one of the writers with the best insight into female psychology.^{[1] [5]}

Her next work was Ayala sin olvidos (1998), a book of conversations with writer and academic Francisco Ayala, a mix of biography, interview, and novel. Then came two new novels: Caminar de noche (2001) and Cuentos con Rita (2003).

In 2005 she wrote the novel Final feliz, which she described thusly:

Antolín wrote three young adult novels: Kris y el verano del piano (1997), Kris y su panda ¡en la selva! (1998), and Kris y los misterios de la vida (1999), based on the adventures of Kris, a character she created.^[6]

She collaborated with the artist Marisa Gonzalez, writing the text of her book Seréis como Dioses.

Considered a pertinacious nonconformist, Antolín's work often contains a mixture of reality and fiction with which the author pretends, as she put it, "to disconcert the reader."^[7] After spending an important part of her life in Toledo, she moved her residence to Madrid. She was married to the writer and journalist Andrés Berlanga.^[2]

A street is named for her in Palencia.^[8]

Works

Novels

• La gata con alas, Alfaguara, 1992,
• Regiones devastadas, Alfaguara, 1995,
• Mujer de aire, Alfaguara, 1997,
• Caminar de noche, Alfaguara, 2001,
• Cuentos con Rita, Alfaguara, 2003,
• Final feliz, Alfaguara, 2005,
• Qué escribes, Pamela, Menoscuarto, 2012,, finalist for the 2013 ^[9]

Young adult fiction

• Kris y el verano del piano, Alfaguay, 1997,
• Kris y su panda ¡en la selva!, Alfaguay, 1998,
• Kris y los misterios de la vida, Alfaguay, 1999,

Essays

• "El territorio de las letras" in El territorio de las letras, Cátedra-Ministerio de Cultura, pp. 9–12, 1994,
• Ayala sin olvidos, Alfaguara, 1998,

Historical essays

• Musulmanas y judías en la España medieval: Vidas paralelas, M. Fundes, Cuenta y Razón, 1997

Notes and References

1. News: Fallece en Madrid la escritora y periodista palentina Enriqueta Antolín . The Writer and Journalist Enriqueta Antolín from Palencia Passes Away in Madrid . . Spanish . 27 November 2013 . 20 August 2018.
2. News: Muere la escritora y periodista Enriqueta Antolín a los 72 años . The Writer and Journalist Enriqueta Antolín Dies at 72 . La Información . EFE . Madrid . Spanish . 26 November 2013 . 20 August 2018.
3. Book: Alatriste, Sealtiel . Cuentos de cine: grandes narradores celebran el primer siglo del cine . Film Stories: Great Storytellers Celebrate the First Century of Cinema . Santillana . 9788420428796 . 50 . Spanish . 1996 . 20 August 2018 . Google Books.
4. Web site: Enriqueta Antolín . . Spanish . https://web.archive.org/web/20091214211641/http://alfaguara.santillana.es/autor/enriqueta-antolin/92/ . 14 December 2009 . dead . 20 August 2018.
5. Web site: 'Siento por Toledo un enamoramiento del que no me puedo librar' . 'I Feel for Toledo an Infatuation That I Cannot Get Rid Of' . Elena . Diaz Funchal . . Spanish . August 2005 . https://archive.today/20070625162431/http://www.jccm.es/revista/179/articulos179/intimo_personal_agosto.htm . 25 June 2007 . dead . 20 August 2018 .
6. Book: En hommage au Professeur . In Homage to the Professor . Luis . Ondo Ayang . Max . Liniger-Goumaz . Editorial Claves para el Futuro . 9788481983630 . 334 . Spanish . 2001 . 20 August 2018 . Google Books.
7. News: Enriqueta Antolín narra en 'Final feliz' la historia de un amor frustrado . In 'Final feliz' Enriqueta Antolín Narrates the Story of a Frustrated Love . Aurora . Intxausti . . Madrid . Spanish . 30 March 2005 . 20 August 2018.
8. Web site: Calle Enriqueta Antolin Gimeno, Palencia . Tercero B . Spanish . 20 August 2018.
9. News: Garzo, De Prada, Ferrero, Gamoneda y Alonso de Santos, entre los diez finalistas del XI Premio de la Crítica de CyL . Garzo, De Prada, Ferrero, Gamoneda, and Alonso de Santos Among the 10 Finalists for the 11th CyL Critics' Award . . Europa Press . Spanish . 1 March 2013 . 20 August 2018.