Spanish journalist and writer, Mónica Carrillo Martínez was born in Elche, Alicante, on September 15th, 1976.
She studied Journalism at the Carlos III University of Madrid and Tourism at the University of Alicante, completing her final year in Munich on an Erasmus scholarship.
As a journalist, she began her career at the EFE news agency, although she soon moved to Televisión Española, where she worked until 2006. That same year, she joined the news crew at Antena 3. She has appeared on all of the network's newscasts, first the morning and weekend news, and later anchored the 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock news, returning to the weekend program with Matías Prats. In 2009, she won the TP de Oro award for best news edition.
As a writer, her first novel, La luz de Candela (2014), was a best-seller. Her subsequent work, which includes collections of micro-stories, includes La vida desnuda, a novel that won the prestigious Azorín Prize in 2020 and tells the story of a young woman who embarks on a journey to say goodbye to her ailing grandmother.7
