Spanish writer, screenwriter, and journalist, Elvira Lindo is mainly known for her children’s books series starting Manolito Gafotas.
With this work she won the National Children and Young Adult Literary Award and later it was adapted to the big screen.
Additionally, Lindo has published books based on her columns in El País, which have a large dose of irony and humor, and has won the Premio Biblioteca Breve Award in 2005 with the novel ‘Una palabra tuya.’
As a screenwriter she participated in the 1998 adaptation of Manolito Gafotas, as well as Plenilunio (2002), based on the novel written by her husband, Antonio Muñoz Molina, among others.
In 2010 ‘Lo que queda por vivir’ was published; a novel full of feelings, generational and daring. And ten years later ‘A corazón abierto’ comes out, where she turned her parent’s history into fiction.
