This is exactly what happens in Grandes' Work, which mentioned both characters receiving merit badges for membership of Franco's police force. Commissioner Roberto Conesa, was the one who awarded him the gold police medal. In July 1977 Martin Villa gave the police silver medal for Honorary Memberiship to former member of Franco's police force, Antonio González Pacheco, his successor.
In the previously mentioned work, the author draws two main characters with two real historical figures: Franco Antonio González Pacheco (nicknamed Billy "el Niño") and the inspector Roberto Conesa. One of the most prominent controversies which stood out in Grandes' literature, is found in her work Las tres bodas de Manolita, also inspired by the Spanish Civil War, in which one of the final scenes coincided (unexpectedly for the author) with reality. In the same presentation, Almudena Grandes also criticized the Partido Popular, saying that "we are in a country where the Spanish right is more reminiscent of the II Republic than the Franco regime", where it gets to claim the right to rule "by the grace of God" or "it has failed to react as a defeated political party, but as an expropriated landowner or someone who had his bag stolen." It was interpreted that the reference was directed to the right-wing radio announcers such as Federico Jimenez Losantos. In March 2007, in the El corazón helado book presentation, some writer's statements caused a great controversy: when she was asked if she would eradicate anything, the writer jokingly said that she would silence two or three voices that riled her, according to some sources. Because of this, in April 2007, she was one of the signatories of a manifesto, in which a group of intellectuals considered it unacceptable to commit acts of terrorism in addition, during the demonstration after ETA's attack on T-4 of Madrid Airport, she read the statement "For peace, life, liberty and against terrorism." That tragedy, in which two people died, was the end of the "ceasefire" that kept the terrorist organization in the negotiations between the government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and the criminal organization. She has been distinguished because of her left political position, having shown her public support for Izquierda Unida (a left-wing Spanish party). Moreover, as many other Spanish writers, it is important to note the large influence of Cervantes, that will inspire Almudena Grandes to build complex stories, small stories and more extensive ones.Īlmudena Grandes is a regular columnist of El País newspaper and a radio broadcaster on Cadena SER. These works mark the attachment felt by the author by survivor archetype characters, not necessarily castaways, but muddling people, who survive one way or another, against the heroes, antiheroes, etc. She shows in them a great realism and an intense psychological introspection.Īlmudena Grandes highlights the influence, especially during her adolescence, and marks the works of authors like Benito Perez Galdos, Daniel Defoe –in particular his work Robinson Crusoe– and Homer with his Odyssey. Her books speak about the Spanish people in the last quarter of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st century. Later in her career, with Ines y la alegria (2010), she won the "Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz" literature prize. Bergmann said, her novel Las edades de Lulú (1989) "represented a breakthrough for eroticism in women's writing".
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Bigas Luna made a movie based on this book, as did Gerardo Herrero with Malena es un nombre de tango and Juan Vicente Córdoba with El lenguaje de los balcones in his film Aunque tú no lo sepas.Īs Emilie L. In 1989 she won the La Sonrisa Vertical prize with her erotic novel Las edades de Lulú, which has been translated into several languages. She is married to the poet Luis García Montero. She studied geography and history at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.