Belén Ruiz de Gopgi ( Spanish: Belén Ruiz de Gopegui ; born 1963 , Madrid ) is a Spanish writer.
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| Birth name | Belén Ruiz de Gopegui |
| Date of Birth | 1963 |
| Place of Birth | Madrid |
| Citizenship |  Spain |
| Occupation | writer, screenwriter |
| Years of creativity | 1993 - present |
| Genre | novel, short story, screenplay |
| Language of Works | Spanish |
| Debut | Map Scale ( 1993 ) |
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Biography
Father - Luis Ruiz de Gopegi, a prominent physicist, aeronautics specialist, program manager at NASA in Spain. She graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Madrid, worked as a journalist. Her first novel , Map Scale ( 1993 ), was awarded several awards for a promising debut. She also acts as a screenwriter, according to her script Sleeping Fate filmed the eponymous film by Angeles Gonzalez-Sindh ( 2003 ), which won the Goya Award . Member of the Communist Party of Spain .
Books
- Map Scale / La escala de los mapas (1993, novel; premio Tigre Juan , 1993; Ibero-American Award for the first novel Santiago del Nuevo Extremo, 1994)
- Touch our faces / Tocarnos la cara ( 1995 , novel)
- On the deserted shore / En desierta playa (1995, short stories)
- Conquest of the sky / La conquista del aire ( 1998 , novel, screened by Gerardo Herrero in 2000 )
- Reality / Lo real ( 2001 , novel; finalist of the National Critics Prize, 2001; Jose Manuel Lara Foundation Prize, 2002; Romulo Gallegos Prize , 2003)
- The other side of the pillow / El lado frío de la almohada ( 2004 , novel)
- Father of Snow White / El padre de Blancanieves ( 2007 , novel, Network Literary Criticism Award Glass in a glass for the best Hispanic book)
- El Balonazo ( 2008 , novel)
- The desire to become punk / Deseo de ser punk ( 2009 , novel, Dulce Chacón Prize for Prose).
- Access denied / Acceso no autorizado ( 2011 , novel)
- El amigo que surgió de un viejo ordenador ( 2012 , novel)
Recognition
The prose writer and critic Francisco Umbral called her the best in the generation. Gopegi novels were awarded many prizes, translated into English, German, French, Italian and other languages.
Literature
- Rabanal H. Belén Gopegui: the pursuit of solidarity in post-transition Spain. Woodbridge; Rochester: Tamesis, 2011
Links
- Wikimedia Commons has media related to Belen Gopegi
- Information about the writer, article about creativity, bibliography (inaccessible link) (isp.) , (Fr.)
- On the Writer's website (Spanish)
- Online Writers (isp.)
- On the IMDB website