Rosa Montero

Rosa Montero was born in Madrid in 1951. After finishing secondary school, she studied psychology, eventually obtaining a degree in journalism and beginning to work for the daily newspaper El Pais in 1976. She received several prestigious awards for her journalistic work. She attracted a huge number of readers with her versatile storytelling style of undeniable quality. Her latest non-fiction work, „El peligro de estar cuerda“, which was one of the best-selling books in Spain in 2022, as well as the response to her science-fiction series featuring protagonist Bruna Husky, are evidence of the vitality of an exceptional career. In 2017, Rosa Montero was awarded the National Prize for Literature by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and her distinguished journalistic career has also received numerous awards. Among her literary works, the most important are the novels „Tretirat ću te kao kraljicu“, „Kanibalova kći“, „Luđakinja u nama“, „Priča o prozirnom kralju“, „Upute kako spasiti svijet“ and „Suze na kiši“. She has also published the short-story collection „Ljubavnici i neprijatelji“. For her literary and journalistic work at El Pais, she received the prestigious „Gabriel Garcia Márquez“ Award.