Almost a decade after the start of the 'Baztán Trilogy' phenomenon, she continues to be a best-selling author: a year after her publication, 'Esperando al diluvio,' her latest novel, is the best-selling book in Spain.

The premature death of a sister marked the childhood of Dolores Redondo (San Sebastián, 1969). She was five years old and her death, with its “black shadow,” as Rosalía de Castro wrote, settled in her house. The girl who was then Dolores sought refuge in books.

Literature was that refuge that illuminated her childhood until life took over again and, with it, the light returned. Stories and more stories stimulated her imagination and unleashed it with such force that she had no choice but to invent other possible worlds so that others could inhabit them.

In adolescence, having already read the entire “established required reading” and freely- sought sources of literary inspiration, she began to write diaries. She was looking to let off steam, leave the remote place where she was born, start living far away without even leaving home.

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