Care Santos
Native name
Macarena Santos i Torres
Born (1970-04-08) 8 April 1970
LanguageCatalan, Spanish
NationalitySpanish
Alma materUniversity of Barcelona
Genrenovel
Notable awards

Macarena Santos i Torres, (born 8 April 1970) is a Spanish writer who writes under the name "Care Santos". She writes in both Catalan and Spanish languages,[1] for both young and adult readers.[2]

Biography

Care Santos studied law and Spanish philology at the University of Barcelona. She started her career as a journalist at Diari de Barcelona and later worked for the papers ABC and El Mundo. In 1995, Santos was recognized for her first book, a collection of novels with the title Cuentos cítricos. Her next books were Trigal con cuervos and Los ojos del lobo.

Awards and honors

  • In 2007, her book Dissection received the Carmen Conde Women's Poetry Award,[3]
  • She was nominated for a Primavera de Novela Award for La muerte de Venus. The latter book was translated into several languages.
  • In 2013, she won the Joaquim Ruyra Award for best youth book for her work No em preguntis qui. sóc.[4]
  • On 20 January 2014, Care Santos was awarded the Premi de les Lletres Catalanes Ramon Llull Award for the book Desig de xocolata, which was released on 6 March 2014.[5]
  • In 2017, she was awarded the Premio Nadal.

Selected works

  • El tango del perdedor (1997)
  • Trigal con cuervos (1999)
  • Aprender a huir (2000)
  • La muerte de Kurt Cobain (1997)
  • Okupada (1997)
  • Te diré quién eres (1997)
  • La ruta del huracán (1999)
  • Krysis (2001)
  • Operación Virgo (2002)
  • Laluna.com (2003)
  • Los ojos del lobo (2004)
  • El circuito de Montecarlo (2005)
  • El anillo de Irina (2005)
  • El dueño de las sombras (2006)
  • La muerte de Venus (2007)
  • Habitaciones cerradas (2012) ISBN 9788408003816, OCLC 883890059

Works in English

References

  1. ↑ Gran Catalana
  2. ↑ "Medverkande 2014 — Bok & Bibliotek". Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "Care Santos, premiada per lobra poètica Disección". Capgrós (in Spanish). 19 June 2007. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  4. ↑ "Vicenç Pagès guanya el Sant Jordi amb una novel·la sobre la precarietat". VilaWeb.cat. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "Care Santos, premi Ramon Llull". El Periódico. 30 January 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
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