{"id":17157,"date":"2026-05-12T13:52:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.losencuentrosdepamplona.com\/?post_type=participante&#038;p=17157"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:51:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:51:46","slug":"olga-merino","status":"publish","type":"participante","link":"https:\/\/www.losencuentrosdepamplona.com\/en\/participante\/olga-merino\/","title":{"rendered":"Olga Merino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journalist and writer. A graduate in Information Science, she has a master&#8217;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 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La Vanguardia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. She is the author of four novels: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cenizas rojas<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Ediciones B, 1999), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Espuelas de papel<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Alfaguara, 2004), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perros que ladran en el s\u00f3tano<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Alfaguara, 2012) and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La forastera<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Alfaguara, 2020), winner of the Real Academia Espa\u00f1ola prize for creative literature (2022) and finalist in the 4th Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Award (2021) and the R\u00f3mulo Gallegos International Novel Prize (2025). She won the Vargas Llosa NH Prize for the short story <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Las normas son las normas<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2006). 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