Soledad Puértolas
Soledad Puértolas Villanueva (born Saragossa, 3 February 1947) is a Spanish writer, and on 28 January 2010 was named member of the Real Academia Española. She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela.
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Se ha destacado, además, como periodista, guionista de televisión y cine, cineasta, director teatral, crítico de cine y de teatro (en El País desde 1948 a 1959; en Marcha desde 1963 a 1966).
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His first award came in 1948 when he won the "Premio Internacional de Novela" (or International Novel Prize") for his novel "Sombras viejas", with jurors such as Somerset Maugham and Walter Starkie.
The novel suffered the censorship of Franco's regime and the promising future of his author seemed frustrated.
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