Elia Barceló facts for kids

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Born	29 January 1957 Elda, Alicante, Spain
Nationality	Spanish

Elia Barceló or Elia Eisterer-Barceló (born 29 January 1957) is a Spanish academic and author who lives in Austria.

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.

Literary genre and topics

One of her characteristics is the variety in the themes of her novels, making it difficult to label her in a particular genre. She started writing science fiction and fantastic novels for adults and works for children and young adults. She continued publishing crime, horror, gothic and historical fiction novels aswell as essays.

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

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

Awards

• Premio Ignotus, science fiction, 1991
• Premio TP de oro, young adult literature, 1997 and 2006
• Premio Internacional, science fiction novella, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Premio UPC), 1993
• Premio Celsius, 2014
• Premio Ignotus, 2018
• Premio Edebé, children's and young adult literature

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. Premio juvenil de literatura.
  • 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.

See also

In Spanish: Elia Barceló para niños