Rights Information

Rights sold: Spanish (Alfaguara), Chinese (Dook Books), Greek (Patakis) and Arabic (Sefsafa)

Reviews

“A harsh rural story… literarily exuberant.” —El País

“A novel as tough and essential as the rugged terrain

where it sinks its roots.” —El Periódico

“A mixture of western and rural thriller, the story of

a woman stronger than the world

she lives in.” —Cadena Ser

“Olga Merino's prose has a rough touch, without frills

or excesses. Her language is forceful, like the main

character, and through her words we sense the earth

and the wine, see the colours of the sky, and also

those of loneliness.” —La Vanguardia

Author Biography

Olga Merino (Barcelona, Spain, 1965) studied IT and completed a master’s in Latin American history and literature in the United Kingdom. During the 1990s, she worked for five years in
Moscow as a correspondent for the
newspaper El Periódico, experiencing the transition from the Soviet  egime to the market economy. This episode
inspired her first novel, Cenizas rojas, which was lauded by critics. Five years later, Espuelas de papel once again demonstrated her interest in portraying
social transformations. In 2006, she was awarded the Premio Vargas Llosa NH for Las normas son las normas, which deals
with the victims of the Crimean War.
She still works for El Periódico today, and also teaches at the writing school of
Barcelona Ateneu.

Copyright Information

Olga Merino 2020