| Rebeca Quintáns | |
| Native Name: | Rebeca Quintáns López |
| Pseudonym: | Patricia Sverlo |
| Birth Place: | Arzúa, Spain |
| Occupation: | Journalist, research writer and teacher |
| Language: | Spanish, Galician |
| Nationality: | Spanish |
| Education: | Journalism |
| Alma Mater: | Complutense University of Madrid |
| Genre: | Non-Fiction, biography, research |
| Subject: | Juan Carlos I of Spain |
| Notableworks: | Un rey golpe a golpe (2000) Juan Carlos I: la biografía sin silencios (2016) |
Rebeca Quintáns López (Arzúa, A Coruña, 1964) is a Spanish journalist, research writer and teacher.[1]
Rebeca Quintáns graduated in Spanish Philology by the University of Santiago de Compostela. She got a doctorate in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid with a thesis about the speech of Juan Carlos I.[2]
Her first book, Un Rey golpe a golpe (A King coup by coup), was released by the publisher Ardi Beltza and signed under the pseudonym of Patricia Sverlo for security reasons.[3] It was the sequel of her doctoral thesis, which in words of the author: "there was so much contrast between the truth of the figure of Juan Carlos and the image created in the media during the Transition that I was looking forward to tell all that".[2]
As a journalist she has written in various media both conventional (Interviú, Tiempo, El Semanal or El Correo Gallego among others) and alternative (Ardi Beltza, Kale Gorria, El Otro País, No a la Guerra or Diagonal). She is also a Secondary school teacher and has worked as an associate professor in the Faculty of Information Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid.[4]
In 2016 she published Juan Carlos I: la biografía sin silencios (Juan Carlos I: the biography without silences), an updated extension of the trajectory of the king emeritus where she reviews different aspects of his life not treated by conventional media.[5] [6]