Dolores Soler-Espiauba Conesa (born Cartagena, Spain, 1935)^{[citation needed]} is a Spanish writer, winning awards for her novels.

Biography

Having studied German and Spanish Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid, Soler-Esiauba began work as a teacher in Portugal, France and Poland. In 1974 she moved to Brussels, Belgium, where she worked as a translator and teacher for the European Union.^[1] Her first novel, Los Canardos, was published late in 1987, for which she received the Premio Felipe Trigo. Later she would win the same prize for Woman with a Landscape of Rain (Mujer con paisaje de lluvia) in 1988.

Soler-Espiauba has also received the Premio Andalucía de Novela for Sister Ana, What Do You See?,^{[citation needed]} the Premio Azorín in 1991, the Premio Café Gijón in 1992^{[citation needed]} and the Premio Gabriel Miró de Cuentos in 2007 for The Tomb of King Baltasar.^[2][3]

Works

Novels

• Los Canardos, (1987), VII Premio Felipe Trigo.
• Woman with a Landscape of Rain (Mujer con paisaje de lluvia), (1988), VIII Premio Felipe Trigo.
• Chronicles of Oblivion (Crónica del olvido), (1988), Premio Café Iruña.
• Sister Ana, What Do You See? (Hermana Ana, ¿Qué ves?), (1990) V Premio Andalucía
• Elisa or the Imperfect Past (Elisa o el pasado imperfecto), (1992), Premio Azorín de Novela
• The Gold and the Moor. Alicante (El oro y el moro. Alicante), (1992), Premio Café Gijón
• The Blackberry Stain (La mancha de la mora) (1997).

Short stories

• Twelve Roses for Rose (Doce rosas para Rosa), (1989).
• The Thief with the Black Glove (Ladrón de guante negro), (1989).
• More Was Lost in Cuba (Más se perdió en Cuba), (1995).
• Moors and Christians (Moros y Cristianos), (1995).
• ...But Brunettes Marry Themselves (...Pero se casan con las morenas), (1995).
• More Shells than a Tortoise (Más conchas que un galápago), (1998).
• Guantanameras, (1997).
• A Taxi towards Coyoacán (Un taxi hacia Coyoacán), (1998).
• Mirta and the Old Master (Mirta y el viejo señor), (1998).
• Life is a Tango (La vida es un tango), (1998).
• The Tomb of King Baltasar (La tumba del rey Baltasar), (2007).