Journalist and writer. A graduate in Information Science, she has a master’s degree in Latin American History and Literature from University College London (UCL), thanks to a La Caixa/British Council postgraduate scholarship. She has lived in London and in Moscow. She writes articles for La Vanguardia. She is the author of four novels: Cenizas rojas (Ediciones B, 1999), Espuelas de papel (Alfaguara, 2004), Perros que ladran en el sótano (Alfaguara, 2012) and La forastera (Alfaguara, 2020), winner of the Real Academia Española prize for creative literature (2022) and finalist in the 4th Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Award (2021) and the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize (2025). She won the Vargas Llosa NH Prize for the short story Las normas son las normas (2006). Her most recent book is the memoir Cinco inviernos (Alfaguara, 2022), about her experience as a correspondent in Russia for El Periódico during the fall of the Soviet regime.
