Belén Gopegui
Belén Ruiz de Gopegui Durán (born 1963, in Madrid) is a Spanish novelist and screenwriter. She received various awards for her first novel La escala de los mapas (1993). Her novel La conquista del aire (1998) was adapted into a film by director Gerardo Herrero.
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.jpg.webp) Belén Gopegui in a Summer course in Cáceres, Spain, July 2007. | |
| Born | 1963 |
| Nationality | Spanish |
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| Years active | 1993–present |
Biography
Her parents were Margarita Durán Suárez and Luis Ruiz de Gopegui. She studied law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where she directed the magazine Triago. She received a PhD in Humanities by Charles III University of Madrid. Her work began as a collaborator for several newspapers including El sol, where she wrote several interviews.
Her first novel La escala de los mapas won two prizes: Premio Tigre Juan and Premio Iberoamericano Santiago del Nuevo Extremo. Her second novel, Tocarnos la cara, was published in 1995. Gerardo Herrero based his film Las razones de mis amigos (2000) on her third novel La conquista del aire (1998). After Herrero's adaptation, she wrote the screenplay for the movie La suerte dormida with director Ángeles González-Sinde. Later, she wrote the screenplay for El principio de Arquímedes, a movie directed by Gerardo Herrero in 2004.[1]
Francisco Umbral considers her the best writer of her generation. She is a communist, and she has written several articles about Cuba. In the assessment of Luis I. Prádanos, "The common denominators of Belén Gopegui's work are socio-political engagement and the constant search for updated and original ways to express it. [...] Belén Gopegui is currently one of the most innovative Spanish authors. Every novel she writes involves structural experimentation to tell a story (the structure always serving the purpose of the story), which doesn't prevent her work from being unified by a persistent social and political engagement."[2]
Bibliography
- La escala de los mapas. Anagrama, 1993
- Premio Tigre Juan 1993
- Premio Iberoamericano "Santiago del Nuevo Extremo" 1994
- Tocarnos la cara. Anagrama, 1995
- Cualladó: puntos de vista, 1995
- En desierta playa, 1995
- La conquista del aire. Anagrama, 1998
- Lo real. Anagrama, 2001
- Finalista del XIII Premio Rómulo Gallegos 2003
- Finalista del I Premio Fundación José Manuel Lara de Novela 2002
- Finalista del Premio de la Crítica 2001
- El lado frío de la almohada. El Cultural 2003
- con González-Sinde, Ángeles. La suerte dormida, 2003 (script).
- El principio de Arquímedes, 2004 (script).
- El lado frío de la almohada. Anagrama, 2004
- El padre de Blancanieves. Anagrama, 2007
- El Balonazo. Anagrama, 2008
- Deseo de ser punk. Anagrama, 2009
- The Scale of Maps. City Lights Publishers, 2010. ISBN 978-0-87286-510-5.
- Acceso no autorizado. Mondadori, 2011
- El comité de la noche. Penguin Random House, 2014
- Fuera de la burbuja, Gran Angular, 2017
- Quédate este día y esta noche conmigo Penguin Random House, 2017
- Las nubesfuria , Somos libros, 2021
- Existiríamos el mar, Random House 2021
External links
- Biographical sketch from the literary workshop Oktubre2003
- Belén Gopegui in Escritoras.com: Information on women authors and their works
- Author of the month in Escritores.org.
- Interview for El Mundo (April 22, 2001)
- Interview with Marta Rivera de la Cruz, in Espéculo 7, 1997.
- Review of La conquista del aire by Marta Rivera de la Cruz, in Espéculo 8, 1997.
- Interview by Miren Eraso
References
- "Escritoras. Belén Gopegui". Escritoras.com Literatura escritar por mujeres. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- Luis I. Prádanos, 'Writing an Engaged Novel in the Network Society: Belén Gopegui, Systemic Narratives, and Globalization', in Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing: Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics, ed. by Estrella Cibreiro, Francisca López, Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature, 7 (New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 208-24 (pp. 208-9).