Elia Barceló

Elia Barceló
Born29 January 1957
Elda, Alicante, Spain
NationalitySpanish
Occupationacademic then writer

Elia Barceló or Elia Eisterer-Barceló (born 29 January 1957)[1] was a Spanish academic in Austria and she then became a successful full-time writer. She writes in different genres and her work has been adapted for film.

Life

Barceló was born in Elda in 1957. She became an academic and earned her doctorate in Innsbruck, Austria in 1995. She remained in Austria, working as a professor of Spanish literature. She has won a number of awards.[2]

Literary genre and topics

She started writing science fiction in 1981. She is well regarded as an SF writer in Spanish[2] She continued to publish crime, horror, gothic and historical fiction novels as well as essays.[3]

Her work has been translated into French, Italian, German, Catalan, English, Greek, Hungarian, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Croatian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Basque, Ukrainian, Czech, Russian and Esperanto.[4][5] Memory, love and death are recurring themes in her work, where she also vindicates the role of mature women.[6]

Her Heart of Tango was published in an English translation in 2010.[7]

In 2018 she published Las largas sombras which is a story based around a group of women friends who discover the remains of a friend who disappeared two decades before. The story has since been adapted into a film of the same name by Clara Roquet which was on the Disney+ network in 2023.[8]

Her horror story, Frankenstein Effect, won the 2022 Hache prize after a popular vote by young readers. The story is based around time travel where discrimination can be seen and its concludes withn a nod to the work of Mary Shelley who invented the Frankenstein monster.[9] In 2022 she was invited to Cartagena and "Cartegena Negra" to appear in a round table with Empar Fernández, María Suré and Teresa Cardona.[10]

Awards

Works

    • Sagrada. Ediciones B, Barcelona, 1989.
    • Consecuencias Naturales. Madrid, 1994.
    • El mundo de Yarek, premio UPC 1993, Barcelona, 1994. Editorial Lengua de Trapo .
    • El caso del Artista Cruel, premio Edebé, 1998.
    • La mano de Fatma, 2001.
    • El vuelo del hipogrifo, 2002. Editorial Lengua de Trapo.
    • El caso del crimen de la ópera, 2002.
    • El secreto del orfebre, 2003. Editorial Lengua de Trapo.
    • Si un día vuelves a Brasil, 2003. Alba Editorial.
    • Disfraces terribles. Barcelona, 2004. Editorial Lengua de Trapo.
    • El contrincante, 2004.
    • Cordeluna, Premio Edebé de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, 2007.
    • Corazón de Tango, 2007. Ed. 451 Editores.
    • El almacén de las palabras terribles, Zaragoza: Edelvives, 2007.
    • Caballeros de Malta, 2007. Edebé-Periscopio.
    • La roca de Is, 2010, Edebé-Edición Nómadas.
    • Las largas sombras, 2009. Ediciones Ámbar (reed. Roca, 2018)
    • Anima mundi, 2013. Ediciones Destino.
    • Por ti daré mi vida, 2015. Edebé.
    • La Maga y otros cuentos crueles, 2015. Cazador de ratas.
    • El color del silencio, 2017, ed. Roca.
    • El eco de la piel, 2019, ed. Roca.
    • El efecto Frankenstein, 2019, ed. Edebé. [10]
    • La noche de plata, 2020, Roca Editorial.
    • Muerte en Santa Rita, 2021, Roca Editorial.
    • Amores que matan, 2023, Roca Editorial.
    • El síndrome Frankenstein, 2023, Edebé.
    • La soga de cristal, 2024, Roca Editorial.

References

  1. ^ Játiva, Juan Manuel (2013-08-25). ""A la gente le gustaría tener poderes especiales y cortar cabezas"". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
  2. ^ a b "Elia Barceló". Strange Horizons. 2016-10-23. Retrieved 2024-11-27.
  3. ^ "Interview with Elia Barceló - Blog del Instituto Cervantes de Dublín Blog del Instituto Cervantes de Dublín". Retrieved 2024-07-29.
  4. ^ "literary reading ::Today we are reading with: Elia Barceló, Kevin Barry, Christopher Domínguez Michael, Keith Ridgway and María Negroni ::Instituto Cervantes de Dublín". dublin.cervantes.es. Retrieved 2024-07-29.
  5. ^ "Elia Barceló reivindica el papel de las mujeres "de cierta edad"". Tribuna Feminista (in European Spanish). 25 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  6. ^ Oliva, Ángeles (2023-04-14). "Elia Barceló: "La ciencia ficción sirve para enfrentarnos con dilemas éticos que no creíamos que fueran posibles"". ElDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-07-29.
  7. ^ Frye, Elia Barceló ; translated from the Spanish by David (2010). Heart of Tango. London: MacLehose. ISBN 1906694605.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "Clara Roquet finishes shooting Las largas sombras". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. 2023-06-29. Retrieved 2024-11-27.
  9. ^ "Alfredo Sanzol y Elia Barceló se alzan con los Premios Mandarache y Hache 2022". Ayuntamiento de Cartagena (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-27.
  10. ^ a b c "Elia Barceló participa este miércoles en Cartagena Negra tras conquistar el Premio Hache". Ayuntamiento de Cartagena (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-27.
  11. ^ Abella, Anna. "Maite Carranza y Elia Barceló se llevan los premios Edebé" (in Spanish). El Periodico.