Almudena Grandes

Almudena Grandes Hernández (Madrid, 7 May 1960) is a Spanish writer. May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (128th in leap years). ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ...

She studied Geography and History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is married to the poet Luis García Montero. In 1989 she won the La Sonrisa Vertical prize with her erotic novel Las edades de Lulú, which has been translated into several languages. Bigas Luna made a movie based on this book, and so did Gerardo Herrero with Malena es un nombre de tango and Juan Vicente Córdoba with El lenguaje de los balcones in his film Aunque tú no lo sepas. History studies the past in human terms. ... The Complutense University of Madrid, in Spanish Universidad Complutense de Madrid, is an important Spanish university, located in Madrid. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Juan José Bigas Luna (Barcelona, March 19, 1946) is a Spanish film director. ...

Her books talk about people of Spain in the last quarter of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st century. She shows in them a great realism and an intense psychological introspection. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... The 21st century is the present century of the Anno Domini (common) era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ...

Books

Novels

• Las edades de Lulú (Tusquets, 1989) (ISBN 84-7223-748-6)
• Te llamaré Viernes (Tusquets, 1991) (ISBN 84-7223-835-0)
• Malena es un nombre de tango (Tusquets, 1994) (ISBN 84-8310-655-8)
• Atlas de geografía humana (Tusquets, 1998) (ISBN 84-8310-073-8)
• Los aires difíciles (Tusquets, 2002) (ISBN 84-8310-195-5)
• Castillos de cartón (Tusquets, 2004) (ISBN 84-8310-259-5)

Short story collections

• Modelos de mujer (Tusquets, 1996) (ISBN 84-8310-602-7)
• Mercados de Barceló, 2003 (ISBN 84-8310-881-X)
• Estaciones de paso (Tusquets, 2005) (ISBN 84-8310-312-5)