The multi-award-winning author publishes the book of short stories 'Las iras', populated by wounded women who end up becoming monsters
Pilar Adón (Madrid, 1971) is a free verse in the flourishing but somewhat standardized Spanish literature of today. Hers is a closed and intimate world that only belongs to her, populated by teenagers and lonely women, accumulators of hidden violence, wounded beings who feel like victims and who end up becoming monsters as a result.
The author now publishes ‘Las iras’ (Galaxia Gutenberg), a book of short stories that follows ‘De bestias y aves’, an award-winning novel with which she expanded her readership after winning the National Fiction Prize, the Francisco Umbral Prize, the Cálamo Prize and the Critics' Prize. From this almost terrifying world that is hers, someone could deduce that Adón is a surly and difficult woman, but there is nothing of the sort in the welcoming conversation of an author (and publisher of the Impedimenta seal) who at 53 years of age still retains the appearance of a wise and mischievous child.
