Rosa Montero

Laura Lonsdale (University of Oxford)

Ed. by Duncan Wheeler, University of Leeds
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.2.02: Spanish Writing and Culture: Modern and Contemporary, 1700-present.
Vol. editors: Santiago Bertrán (University of Oxford), Isabel Berzal Ayuso (Universidad de Alcala de Henares), Stuart Green (University of Leeds), Alexis Grohmann (University of Edinburgh), Duncan Wheeler (University of Leeds)

Dates

Born 3 Jan 1951

Places

Born in Spain
Active in Spain

Activities

Primary

Essayist
Journalist
Novelist

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Rosa Montero has been a consistently bestselling novelist and renowned journalist since the 1970s. She has also published children’s stories, travel writing, interviews, essays and other non-fictional or semi-fictional work. She was born in 1951 into a lower-middle class family living in the Cuatro Caminos area of Madrid. Her father, a

banderillero

or bullfighter’s assistant, gave up his occupation when she was five years old to set up a brickworks. Rosa suffered from tuberculosis and anaemia as a child and for four years of her young life was unable to attend school. Writing became a means of keeping herself entertained and has consequently always been associated with play in the author’s mind. She reflects at length on the personal significance she attaches to reading and the…

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Citation: Lonsdale, Laura. "Rosa Montero". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 03 January 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13160, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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