María de la Almudena Grandes Hernández (7 May 1960 – 27 November 2021) was a Spanish writer. Author of 14 novels and three short-story collections, her work has been translated into twenty languages and frequently adapted to film. She won the National Literature Prize for Narrative and the Prix Méditerranée among other honors. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called her "one of the most important writers of our time." Almudena Grandes was born on 7 May 1960 in the Chamartín neighborhood of Madrid, Spain. She began writing when she was nine and obtained a degree in Geography and History at the Complutense University of Madrid. Following her degree, she started out writing texts for encyclopedias. Drawing on her experiences during the Movida Madrileña, she published her first novel Las edades de Lulú in 1989, an erotic and unbridled novel which achieved great success and won La Sonrisa Vertical prize, having been translated into twenty languages thus far. Director Bigas Luna made a film out of her novel, The Ages of Lulu, starring Javier Bardem. Emilie L. Bergmann said, the novel "represented a breakthrough for eroticism in women's writing" having sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide. More information...
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