Elvira Lindo

Elvira Lindo was born in Cádiz in 1962. She studied journalism at the Complutense University of Madrid and began working at [publication name] in 1981. National Radio of Spain, where she worked as a screenwriter, announcer, commentator, and presenter, tasks she repeated at SER Chain and on television. It was in radio scripts that the character of emerged. Manolito Gafotas, who has enjoyed enormous success since the publication of the first book in the series in 1994. His work includes the novels El otro barrio (1998, 2019) Something more unexpected than death. (2003), adapted for the stage, What else do I have left to live for? (2010), Places I don't want to share with anyone. (2011), Sleepless nights (2015) and A corazón abierto (2020), the piece La ley da la selva (1996), his chronicles of El País in Tinto de verano (2001), Another summer you with (2002) and Don of people (2011) and 30 ways to tip your hat (2018). In 1998, she received the National Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature and, in 2005, she received the Short Library Award through the novel Una palabra tuya, successfully adapted for the screen by Ángeles González-Sinde. He also wrote several film scripts, such as The Unexpected Life (2014) or The First Night of My Life (1998), which won several awards at national and international festivals. Winner of the 2015 International Journalism Prize and the Atlântida Prize from the Catalan Publishers' Guild in 2009, she regularly contributes to the newspaper. El País and in the program "La Ventana" from the Cadena Ser.