Bel Olid (Mataró, Maresme, 1977) is a writer, translator and literature and creative writing teacher.
They have been very active as a translator into Catalan and, to a lesser extent, into Spanish, mainly of children's books, from German, English, French, Italian and Spanish.
They became known as an author in 2010 when they received the Documenta Prize for their novel Una terra solitària and the Rovelló Essay Prize for their study Les heroïnes contrataquen. Models literaris contra l'universal masculí a la literatura infantil i juvenil. Two years later they received the Roc Boronat Prize for La mala reputació, a collection of short stories which was very well received by readers and critics alike. In 2016 they published another short stories co
Tiffany Quay Tyson's second novel, THE PAST IS NEVER, won the prestigious Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, and the Mississippi Author Award for Adult Fiction. It has appeared on bestseller lists in Mississippi and Colorado.
Tiffany was born and raised in Mississippi, where most of her fiction is set. Her debut novel, THREE RIVERS, was a Mississippi bestseller and a finalist for both the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award and the Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction. She currently lives and writes in Denver. Colorado, where she serves on the faculty of Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
Elena Quiroga y Abarca, penúltima de diecisiete hijos de Don José Quiroga y Velarde, conde de San Martiño de Quiroga, y de Isabel de Abarca y Fornés. Su primera publicación data del año 1949, La soledad sonora, en la que cuenta la historia de una mujer desde su adolescencia hasta su madurez. En 1950, un año después de su primera publicación se casó con Dálmiro de Válgoma, futuro secretario perpetuo de la Academia de la Historia, con la novela Viento del Norte (1950) obtuvo el Premio Nadal. A partir de su matrimonio se instaló en Madrid, donde pronto accedió a los ambientes literarios y culturales de la capital. Casi toda su obra está impregnada del ambiente gallego, al estilo de la narrativa de Emilia Pardo Bazán. Escribió diez novelas en c
