Rosa Montero

Rosa Montero Gayo (Madrid, January 3, 1951) is a Spanish writer and journalist. Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts 2022.

Biography

He was born into a humble family. She is the daughter of a banderillero and a housewife. At the age of five she wrote her first novel. She entered the Complutense University of Madrid (at that time the University of Madrid) in 1969. She began her university studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters with the intention of studying psychology and later journalism. In 1970, at the age of 19, he began working as a journalist for various news outlets, including Pueblo, Fotogramas and Posible. Psychology studies, after four years, and graduated from the Superior School of Journalism in Madrid. During the same university period, she collaborated with independent theater groups, such as Canon or Tábano.

In 1988, she married journalist Pablo Lizcano, who died in 2009 after a long illness.

Journalist

Since 1976 and shortly after the founding of the newspaper El País, she began editorial work as the author of numerous columns with a unique style. Between 1980 and 1981, she was chief editor of the supplement Sunday.

He specialized in the interview genre, which he performed in particular in the Sunday supplement of the newspaper El País, achieving some highly renowned successes, such as his interview with Yasser Arafat. She contributed to the genre a literary form, more varied and less stereotyped than that of mere questions and answers.She especially writes opinion articles in national newspapers.

On his tour of China from March 7 to 15, 2018, he visited and lectured at the Beijing University of Foreign Studies, Beijing Cervantes College, attended the opening ceremony of the Macao International Literary Festival, where he gave a lecture; she was in Shanghai where she visited the Instituto Cervantes and held a seminar at Fudan University, among other events.

In the biography of his official website, it is noted that "his journalistic texts appear regularly in various Latin American newspapers. He has written regularly for newspapers such as Clarín (Argentina) or El Mercurio (Chile), and has collaborated in media such as Stern (Germany), Libération (France), La Montagne (France) or The Guardian (United Kingdom). Throughout her career she conducted more than 2,000 interviews (with Ayatollah Khomeini, Yasser Arafat, Olof Palme, Indira Gandhi, Richard Nixon, Julio Cortázar or Malala, among many others) and her technique as an interviewer is studied at journalism universities both in Spain and in Latin America."

Writer

In 1979 he published his debut book, Crónicas del desamor, which caused a stir in the Spanish literary world at the time. The background of this novel is the pinnacle of the women's liberation movement. It tells the heroine's experience of love and marriage with a group of girlfriends from the third-person perspective. Through the description and representation of female self-awareness, it shows the experience of Spanish women in the sociopolitical transition.

In the years that followed, he published a dozen novels, as well as short stories and works aimed at children.

In 1995, she published Women's Stories and in 2005 its Chinese translation was published by Nanhai Publishing Company (in China). This book contains 16 legendary biographies of prominent women in the West in documentary style, including French writer Simone de Beauvoir, George Sand, and French sculptor Camille Claudel, among others.

In 1997 with the novel The Cannibal's Daughter she won the Spring Prize for Spanish Novels. The novel was made into a film with the same title The Cannibal's Daughter, by the Mexican Antonio Serrano.

Rosa Montero was awarded numerous times, both for her journalistic work and for her literary works, in her country, Spain and abroad. Her works have been translated into twenty languages. ^{[citation needed ]}

In 2022 she published El Peligro de estar sane, a literary device as she has announced in various interviews, combining non-fiction with fiction in an essay that takes the form of a narrative. A literary work that deals with creation and madness, where the author takes the lead while connecting her ideas with other authors. The book begins with her saying, "I've always known that something was wrong inside my head." From here, the author unfolds her thoughts, scrutinizing little by little how creation can be understood as a cure for the artist. Thus: "one of the ways in which the artist sews himself into the world is through creation, that is, through his work." But, as Montero rightly points out, the important thing is not only to create, but also to publish and be read.

Awards and recognitions

Rosa Montero signing at the Madrid Book Fair 2007.

• World Interview Award 1978
• 1981 National Journalism Award (Category of Reports and Literary Items)
• Primavera 1997 Award The daughter of the cannibal
• Chile Critical Circle Award 1998 to the best novel by The daughter of the cannibal
• Chile Critical Circle Award 1999 by Lovers and enemies
• What to Read 2003 Award for the best Spanish novel by The crazy house
• Rodríguez Santamaría Award 2004
• Grinzane Cavour 2004 Award for Best Foreign Book Published in Italy by The crazy house
• Madrid Press Association Award 2005 to all its career
• What to Read 2005 Award for the best Spanish novel by History of the Transparent King
• Prize Roman Primeur 2006 for The crazy house
• Mandarache 2007 Award for History of the Transparent King
• Doctor honoris causa por la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Arecibo (19 November 2010)
• 2011 Cognac European Literature Festival Award for the Readers Instructions to Save the World
• International Prize Columnists of the World 2014
• Madrid Critics Award 2014 by The ridiculous idea of not seeing you again
• José Luis Sampedro 2016 Award for the collection of his work
• 2017 International Press Club Professional Trayectoria Award
• International Prize for Journalism Manuel Alcántara of the University of Malaga 2017
• Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas 2017
• In Parla there is a School of Child and Primary Education (CEIP), opened in 2012, which bears its name.
• International Prize for Journalism City of Cáceres 2019, awarded by the Fundación Mercedes Calles and Carlos Ballestero, for the article A whale stranded on a beach published The Weekly Country December 9, 2018, which deals with the train to Cáceres.
• Premi Llig Picanya 2019 to all his career
• Alcalá City Award for Arts and Letters 2019
• Premio Leyenda 2019, awarded by the Madrid Bookshop Association
• Travel Prize in Time 2020
• Award for Solidarity "Juan Antonio González Caraballo" 2020
• CEDRO 2020 Award for its permanent commitment to the defense of culture and intellectual property.
• Violeta Negra Award of the Toulouse Festival Polars du Sud 2020 by The times of hatred
• Honorary Member, University of Malaga
• ASICOM-Universidad de Oviedo 2022
• Eñe 2022 Festival Award.
• In 2022 he was recognized with the Gold Medal to Merit in the Fine Arts 2022, granted by The Council of Ministers, on the proposal of the Spanish Minister of Culture and Sport.

Works

Novels

• Chronicle of Disappearance (Debate, 1979)
• The Delta function (Debate, 1981)
• I'll treat you like a queen (Seix Barral, 1983)
• Beloved master (Debate, 1988)
• Tremble (Seix Barral, 1990)
• Beautiful and dark (Seix Barral, 1993)
• The daughter of the cannibal (Espasa, 1997)
• The Heart of the Tatar (Espasa, 2001)
• The crazy house (Alfaguara, 2003)
• History of the Transparent King (Alfaguara, 2005)
• Instructions to Save the World (Alfaguara, 2008)
• Tears in the rain (Seix Barral, 2011) (Bruna Husky 1)
• The ridiculous idea of not seeing you again (Seix Barral, 2013)
• The weight of the heart (Seix Barral, 2015) (Bruna Husky 2)
• The flesh (Alfaguara, 2016)
• The times of hatred (Seix Barral, 2018) (Bruna Husky 3)
• Good luck. (Alfaguara, 2020)
• The danger of being sane (Seix Barral, 2022)
• The unknown (Alfaguara, 2023), with Olivier Truc.

Children's and youth literature

• The nest of dreams (Siruela, 1991)
• Barbara's beards (Alfaguara Infantil, 1996)
• The fantastic journey of Barbara (Alfaguara Infantil, 1997)
• Barbara against Dr. Colmillos (Alfaguara Infantil, 1998)

Stories

• Lovers and enemies. Couple counts (Alfaguara, 1998)

In collective works

• Twelve accounts of women (with eleven authors) (Alianza, 1982)
• The knife in the throat (in the collective volume Urban reports, Alfaguara, 1994)
• Counts of the sea (with eight authors) (Editions B, 2001)
• Tomorrow still. Twelve dystopias for the 21st century. Editor: Ricard Ruiz Garzón. Authors: Juan Miguel Aguilera, Elia Barceló, Emilio Bueso, Laura Gallego, Rodolfo Martínez, José María Merino, Rosa Montero, Juan Jacinto Muñoz Rengel, Javier Negrete, Félix J. Palma, Marc Pastor and Susana Vallejo. Fantascy: 2014.
• Participated in No. (2016), a collective book with collages by Angel Olgoso where 101 Spanish American writers provided a text to accompany each of the images.
• Poshumans: anthology of Spanish writers of science fiction. Editors: Lola Robles and Teresa López-Pellisa. Authors: Rosa Montero, Nieves Delgado, Laura Fernández, María Zaragoza, Alicia Araujo, Carme Torras, María Laffitte, Lola Robles, Roser Cardús, María Angulo, Emilia Pardo Bazán and Felicidad Martínez. (Wall Books, 2018)

Nonfiction

• Journalism and literature (Guadarrama, 1973)
• Spain for you forever (AQ Editions, 1976)
• Five years of country (Debate, 1982)
• The naked life (Aguilar, 1994)
• Stories of women (Alfaguara, 1995)
• Interviews (Aguilar, 1996)
• Passions (Aguilar, 1999)
• Boston and other trips (Península, 2002)
• The best of Rosa Montero (Ink mirror, 2005)
• The love of my life (Alfaguara, 2011). Articles published between 1998 and 2010 in The country.
• Ways to live (La Pereza Editions, 2014)
• We: History of women and something more (ilustrations by María Herreros), (Alfaguara, 2018). Extended Edition Stories of women.
• The art of the interview. 40 years of questions and answers (Debate, 2019).

Writing course

• Write with Rosa Montero (ilustrated by Paula Bonet) (Alfaguara, 2017).

Theater

• Bruna Husky (2019). Monologist led by Vanessa Montfort and played by Salomé Jiménez.

As editor

• Men (and some women) (Zenda, 2019). Editor and prologue.

Controversy

In June 2017, in the Maneras de vivir section of the Sunday supplement of the newspaper El País, Rosa Montero published an opinion article in which she charged against the companies pharmaceutical and food multinationals and promoted the use of homeopathy. industries and points to scientific popularizers as authors of a smear campaign against homeopathy. The disseminators Mauricio-José Schwarz and Luis Alfonso Gámez replied to her author, pointing out her errors; among them, that transgenic seeds were not created in the 1950s by Norman Borlaug at the beginning of the Green Revolution, but later. After the reactions, in the section The Defender of the Reader , Lola Galán transcribed a response from Rosa, in which she apologized for her mistakes and reaffirmed her criticism.

Author Bibliography

• Ahumada Peña, Haydée. Power and gender in the narrative of Rosa Montero. Madrid: Editorial Pliegos, 1999.
• Davoes, Catherine. Contemporary Feminist Fiction in Spain. The Works of Montserrat Roig and Rosa Montero. Oxford/Providence: Berg, 1994.
• Scrudero Rodriguez, Javier. Rosa Montero's narrative. Towards an ethics of hope. Madrid: Editorial Biblioteca Nueva, 2005.
• Harges, Mary C. Symergy and Subversion in the Second Stage. Novels of Rosa Montero. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2000.
• Knights, Vanessa. The Search for Identity in the Narrative of Rosa Montero. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1999.
• Miguel Martínez, Emilio de. The first narrative of Rosa Montero. Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, 1983.
• "Sex and gender in History of the transparent king Rosa Montero, CiberLetras 19, 2008; access 02.09.2012
• Torres Rivas, Immaculate. Rosa Montero. Study of the character in the novel. Malaga: Publications and Scientific Exchange Service of the University of Malaga, 2004.
• Gonzalez Padilla, Ayoze. Thinking Together: A journey through Philosophy, Music and Art in the uniqueness of the multiple. Vol. I. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/Lulaya Ediciones, 2023.
• Gonzalez Padilla, Ayoze. Creation and madness in the shelter of recognition: To what extent artists are dispossessed people of the world [Work End of Degree not published] Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2023.