Elvira Navarro

Elvira Navarro was born in Huelva in 1978, and has a degree in philosophy. In 2004 she won the Madrid local authority Young Creators’ Competition, and was awarded a grant for creativity for 2005-2008 at the Students’ Residence. In 2007 she published her first book, The City in Winter (Trojan Horse), which received warm reviews and showcased in Fnac’s New Talent. Her second novel, The Happy City (Mondadori, 2009), won the 25th Jaen Novel Prize and was chosen by the reviewers of the newspaper Público as a revelatory book of the year. It was also chosen by Granta magazine for its special edition The Best Young Narrators in Spanish. Her third novel, The Worker, was published in 2014, establishing her as an indispensable writer in Spanish literature.