Belén Ruiz de Gopegui is a Spanish

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 writer

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She studied law

Law

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 at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and she worked for several newspapers including El sol.

Her first novel La escala de los mapas won two prizes : Premio Tigre Juan and Premio Iberoamericano Santiago del Nuevo Extremo. Gerardo Herrero

Gerardo Herrero

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 based his film Las razones de mis amigos (2000) on her third novel La conquista del aire (1998).

Francisco Umbral

Francisco Umbral

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 considers her the best writer of her generation. She is a communist, and she has written several articles about Cuba

Cuba

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External links

• Biographical sketch from the literary workshop Oktubre2003
• Belén Gopegui in Escritoras.com: Information on women authors and their works
• Author of the month in Escritores.org.
• Interview for El Mundo (April 22, 2001)
• http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo/numero7/gopegui.htmInterview with Marta Rivera de la Cruz
  Marta Rivera de la Cruz
  -Biography:Rivera de la Cruz was born into a family of well-known journalists. At the age of 18 she moved to Madrid, where she earned a bachelor of science degree in information with a specialty in political communication from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She spent a quarter studying at...
  
  ], in Espéculo 7, 1997.
• Review of La conquista del aire by Marta Rivera de la Cruz, in Espéculo 8, 1997.
• Interview by Miren Eraso