She started writing at the age of eight, won her first literary contest at fourteen and published her first book at 25. That's Care Santos (Barcelona, Spain, 1970), one of the most emblematic figures in children's and young adults literature, who will visit FIL Guadalajara to share her love for letters with the new generations.
It is this love that has led her to publish a vast work composed so far of fourteen novels, six books of short stories, two books of poetry, a book of aphorisms and a large number of novels for young people, among which the saga formed by Mentira, Verdad, Miedo, Ben and Los Medina.
Precisely because of her extensive and successful literary career focused on this audience, in 2020 she was awarded the Cervantes Chico Prize for Children's and Youth Literature, highlighting the originality of her themes, the treatment of the characters and the careful architecture in the structure of her stories, not to mention her unwavering commitment to promoting reading among the youngest through workshops and literary meetings.
Her work, translated into more than 20 languages, also includes titles such as Closed rooms (2011), which was adapted into a TV miniseries in 2014; Desire for chocolate (Ramon Llull Award 2014), Media Vida (2017 Nadal Award) and All Good and All Evil (2018).
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