Elia Barceló

Elia Barceló (Alicante, 1957) is a Spanish SF writer, considered the most important in her country. Besides SF, she has also published fantasy, detective stories, young adults books and essays.

She studied German and Hispanic Filology, and finally had her Ph.D. in Hispanic Filology in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1995, where she currently lives and teaches Hispanic literature.

She is one of the three most important SF women authors in Spanish language, together with Argentinian Angélica Gorodischer and Cuban Daína Chaviano, with whom she comprises the so-called "feminine triad in American-Spanish SF".

Awards

• Ignotus Award in 1991.
• EDEBÉ Prize in the category Young Adult Literature in 1997.
• International Award for Best SF Short Novel from the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, 1993.

Works

• Sagrada. Ediciones B, Barcelona, 1989.
• Consecuencias Naturales. Madrid, 1994
• El mundo de Yarek. UPC Award 1993. Barcelona, 1994
• El caso del Artista Cruel. Premio EDEBÉ. 1998.
• La mano de Fatma, 2001.
• El vuelo del hipogrifo, 2002.
• El caso del crimen de la ópera, 2002.
• El secreto del orfebre, 2003.
• Disfraces terribles. Barcelona, 2004.
• El contrincante, 2004.
• Corazón de Tango, 2007.

Links

• Interview in Spanish.
• Review of El mundo de Yarek, in Spanish.