Elvira Navarro

Elvira Navarro holds a licentiate in Philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid.{{Cite news |url=https://www.abc.es/hemeroteca/historico-19-09-2009/abc/Nacional/la-onubense-elvira-navarro-gana-el-premio-jaen-de-novela-de-cajagranada_1024255266667.html |title=La onubense Elvira Navarro gana el premio Jaén de novela de Cajagranada |trans-title=The Huelva Native Elvira Navarro Wins the Jaén Novel Award from Cajagranada |first=Javier |last=López |work=ABC |location=Jaén |language=Spanish |date=19 September 2009 |access-date=16 January 2019}} In 2004 she won the City Council of Madrid's Young Creators Competition,{{Cite news |url=https://www.europapress.es/cultura/libros-00132/noticia-elvira-navarro-gana-premio-jaen-novela-2009-ciudad-feliz-retrato-realidad-social-espana-20090918201656.html |title=Elvira Navarro gana el 'Premio Jaén de Novela 2009' con 'La ciudad feliz', un retrato de la realidad social de España |trans-title=Elvira Navarro Wins the 2009 Jaén Novel Award with 'La ciudad feliz', a Portrait of the Social Reality of Spain and from 2005 to 2008 |agency=Europa Press |location=Madrid |language=Spanish |date=18 September 2009 |access-date=17 January 2019}} and enjoyed a creative scholarship at the Residencia de Estudiantes.{{Cite news |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2011/08/21/eps/1313908014_850215.html |title='Nuestra sociedad es emocionalmente infantil' |trans-title='Our Society is Emotionally Childish' |first=Javier |last=Rodríguez Marcos |work=El País |language=Spanish |date=21 August 2011 |access-date=17 January 2019}} She has published two complementary books: La ciudad en invierno (The City in Winter) and La ciudad feliz (The Happy City), as well as the novels La trabajadora (The Working Woman) and Los últimos días de Adelaida García Morales (The Last Days of Adelaida García Morales). Her work has earned the {{ill|Jaén Novel Award|es|Premio Jaén de novela}}, the {{ill|Tormenta en un vaso Award|es|Anexo:Premio La tormenta en un vaso}} for Best New Author,{{Cite web |url=http://latormentaenunvaso.blogspot.com/2010/05/premios-tormenta-2009-ganadores.html |title=Premios Tormenta 2009: ganadores |trans-title=2009 Tormenta Awards: Winners |work=La tormenta en un vaso |language=Spanish |date=May 2010 |access-date=17 January 2019}} and the Fnac New Talent Distinction. Navarro is also the author of the blog Periferia, an ongoing work on the neighborhoods of Madrid that explores bordering and undefined spaces. In 2010 she was included in the magazine Granta{{'}}s list of the 22 best Spanish-language novelists under 35.{{Cite news |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2010/10/02/cultura/1285970401_850215.html |title=Canon literario se escribe con 'ñ' |trans-title=Literary Canon is Written with 'ñ' |first=Javier |last=Rodríguez Marcos |work=El País |location=Madrid |language=Spanish |date=2 October 2010 |access-date=17 January 2019}}{{Cite magazine |url=http://www.granta.com/magazine/113 |title=Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists |magazine=Granta |number=113 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110223160159/http://www.granta.com/magazine/113 |archive-date=23 February 2011 |access-date=17 January 2019}}

In 2013 she was selected as one of the Spanish voices with the greatest futures by El Cultural, and in 2014 the same magazine rated La trabajadora one of the ten best Spanish-language novels of the year. Portions of her work have been translated into English, French, Swedish, Italian, Turkish, and Arabic.

She has written for magazines such as El Cultural, Ínsula, Letras Libres, {{ill|Quimera (magazine)|es|Quimera (revista)|lt=Quimera}}, Turia, and Calle 20, and for the newspapers Público, eldiario.es, El Mundo, and El País. She has performed literary criticism for Qué Leer, Revista de Libros, and the blog {{ill|La tormenta en un vaso|es}}. She became editor of the Caballo de Troya imprint in 2015, and teaches writing workshops.

Her novel Los últimos días de Adelaida García Morales was harshly criticized by the filmmaker Víctor Erice in El País. Erice accused Navarro of trivializing the figure of Adelaida García Morales (his ex-wife), and causing grief to her loved ones by writing "a sort of fake fiction documentary" rather than a well-researched biography.{{Cite news |url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2016/09/29/babelia/1475153443_790435.html |title=Una vida robada |trans-title=A Life Stolen |first=Víctor |last=Erice |author-link=Victor Erice |work=El País |language=Spanish |date=3 October 2016 |access-date=17 January 2019}} Navarro's retort and various public interventions by other writers (such as Juan Marsé, in support of Erice) increased the controversy and the debate over the limits of fiction.{{Cite news |url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2016/10/06/babelia/1475769163_593446.html |title=La ficción también duele |trans-title=Fiction Also Hurts |first=Maribel |last=Marín Yarza |work=El País |language=Spanish |date=19 October 2016 |access-date=17 January 2019}}

• La ciudad en invierno, Barcelona, Caballo de Troya, 2007; Debolsillo, 2008; Debolsillo 2012; {{ISBN|9788483467909}}
• La ciudad feliz, Barcelona, Mondadori, 2009, {{ISBN|9788439722663}}
• El invierno y la ciudad, RHM Flash (ePub), 2012, {{ISBN|9788415597360}}
• La trabajadora, Barcelona, Penguin Random House, 2014, {{ISBN|9788439728689}}
• Los últimos días de Adelaida García Morales, Barcelona, Random House, 2016, {{ISBN|9788439732075}}

• Quince golpes en la cabeza, compilation by Ernesto Pérez Castillo, Havana, Editorial Cajachina, 2008
• Elegías íntimas. Instantáneas de cineastas, coordination by {{ill|Hilario J. Rodríguez|es}}, Documenta Madrid, 2008
• Asamblea portátil. Muestrario de narradores iberoamericanos. Antología de última narrativa, selection and prologue by {{ill|Salvador Luis|es}}, Lima, Editorial Casatomada, 2009
• Madrid / Barcelona. Literatura y ciudad (1995–2010), editing, introduction, and reading guide by Jorge Carrión, Madrid, Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert and Cátedra Miguel Delibes (Valladolid), 2009
• The best of young Spanish language novelists, New York, Granta, 2010; Los mejores narradores jóvenes en español, Barcelona, Granta – Duomo, 2010
• Siglo XXI. Los nuevos narradores del cuento español actual, editing by Gemma Pellicer and Fernando Valls, Palencia, Menoscuarto Ediciones, 2010
• Chéjov comentado, editing by Sergi Bellver, Madrid, Nevsky Prospects, 2010
• Pequeñas Resistencias 5. Antología del nuevo cuento español (2001–2010), editing by Andrés Neuman, Madrid, Editorial Páginas de Espuma, 2010
• Los oficios del libro, various authors, Madrid, Libros de la ballena, 2011
• La ciudad contada: Buenos Aires en la mirada de la nueva narrativa hispanoamericana, editing by {{ill|Maximiliano Tomas|es}}, Buenos Aires, Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires, 2012
• Cuentos en blanco y negro, editing by Miguel Ángel Oeste, Ministry of Culture of the City of Melilla, Manigua, 2012
• Passageways, editing by Camille T. Dungy and Daniel Hahn, San Francisco, Two Lines – World Writing in Translation, 2012
• En breve. Cuentos de escritoras españolas (1975–2010). Estudio y antología, editing by Ángeles Encinar and Carmen Valcárcel, Madrid, Editorial Biblioteca Nueva, 2012
• Mar de pirañas. Nuevas voces del microrrelato español, editing by Fernando Valls, Palencia, Menoscuarto, 2012, {{ISBN|9788496675896}}
• Madrid, con perdón. Editing and prologue by Mercedes Cebrián. Anthology of texts about Madrid by {{ill|Fernando San Basilio|es}}, {{ill|Esther García Llovet|es}}, {{ill|Carlos Pardo (writer)|es|Carlos Pardo (escritor)|lt=Carlos Pardo}}, {{ill|Juan Sebastián Cárdenas|es}}, Jimina Sabadú, Antonio J. Rodríguez, Óscar Esquivias, Natalia Carrero, Grace Morales, {{ill|Jordi Costa|es}}, {{ill|Álvaro Colomer|es}}, Iosi Havilio, Roberto Enríquez, and Elvira Navarro. Editorial Caballo de Troya, 2012
• Cuento español actual, compilation by Ángeles Encinar, Editorial Cátedra, 2013

• 2004: Young Creators Award from the City Council of Madrid
• 2007: Fnac New Talent Distinction for La ciudad en invierno
• 2008: Finalist for the Huelva Youth Awards
• 2009: 25th {{ill|Jaén Novel Award|es|Premio Jaén de novela}} for La ciudad feliz
• 2009: Evolución 09 El Duende/PlayStation Literary Creation Award{{Cite web |url=https://www.aeepp.com/noticia/868/noticias-asociados/psp-go-y-el-duende-entregan-los-i-premios-evolucion-en-una-cita-a-ciegas-para-visionarios.html |title=PSP go y El Duende entregan los I Premios Evolución en 'una cita a ciegas para visionarios' |work=AEEPP |trans-title=El Duende and PSP Go Present the 1st Evolución Awards at 'A Blind Date for Visionaries' |publisher=Asociación Española de Editoriales de Publicaciones Periódicas |language=Spanish |date=1 October 2014 |access-date=17 January 2019}}
• 2009: La ciudad feliz chosen by Público{{'}}s Culturas section as one of the year's eye-opening books
• 2009: 4th {{ill|Tormenta en un vaso Award|es|Anexo:Premio La tormenta en un vaso}} for Best New Author for La ciudad feliz
• 2009: Finalist for the 7th Dulce Chacón Spanish Narrative Award for La ciudad feliz
• 2014: La trabajadora chosen by El Mundo{{'}}s magazine El Cultural as one of the year's best Spanish-language books{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.elcultural.com/articulo_imp.aspx?id=35683 |title=La novela olvida sus límites y fronteras |trans-title=The Novel Forgets its Limits and Borders |magazine=El Cultural |language=Spanish |date=26 December 2014 |access-date=17 January 2019}}
• 2017: Finalist for the 5th Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero for La isla de los conejos

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