Get to know the work of this writer of the Spanish black genre, Empar Fernandez a novelist with 36 titles worth reading and having. In this article we will talk about her work and her life, so that you start looking for her books today.
Empar Fernández and his most recent collaboration. 36 titles to choose from, Empar Fernández the Spanish writer who always has something to give
Discovering Empar Fenández
This novelist from Barcelona, born in 1962, has steadily earned her place among the great authors of Spanish noir novels. If you haven't heard of her, it's time to start following her path as a novelist and columnist.
He has to his credit a catalog of 36 works, among which he has collaborated with other prominent authors in the genre such as: Pablo Bonell Goytisolo, with whom he has developed 7 complete novels, the most recent being published this past 2020 and is titled Deliver us from evil.
this shocking thiller written by 4 hands, it takes us once again to solve a case with the sub-inspector Santiago Escalona (a character who has his own trilogy), and this time both Empar and Pablo participate in the narrative and the story as characters.
Deliver us from Evil, is a novel that catches you and makes you want more with each passing page, and as is customary in the works of fernandez, we will find the social denunciation as part of the arguments that are developed in the novel; in this case we will be reviewing the real sufferings of the lives of teachers inside and outside the classroom.
As is to be expected in Fernández's novels, we are expected to discover the reasons that influence the social construction of a crime and its victim. Another great collaborator of Fernández is Judith Pujado, with whom he has collaborated in two works of satire such as: 30, 40 and the bitter age (2004) and Pose ESO (2002), which won the Pere Quart Prize for Humor and Satire.
Empar Fernandez Awards & Accolades
This successful writer won her first prize with her first film Horace in memory, obtaining the XXV Cáceres Award in 2000. Prior to that, in 1998 he ventured into the cinema, with the script Foradada city. A documentary about citizen resistance during the bombings in the city of Barcelona, during the Civil War. This work would make him worthy of the Serra i Moret award.
His novel El Loco de las Muñecas is a finalist in the IX Fernando Quiñones Unicaja Novel Award. And in 2009 she won the Rejadora Short Novel Award with La cicatriz. The novel Damn truth She is the winner of the City of Santa Cruz Black Novel Award, Tenerife Noir Black Genre Atlantic Festival 2017. Below is a list of her solo work and collaboration:
- So that it never dawns 2001
- Casas Particulares Cienfuegos, 2004 collaboration
- the things of death, collaboration 2006
- Bad blood, collaboration 2007
- sons of defeat, 2008
- The scar, 2009
- a bad day to die, collaboration 2009
- deadly lies, 2010
- no apparent cause, 2011
- dead man run, 2012
- The woman who didn't get off the plane, 2014
- the infinite gaze, collaboration 2014
- The last call, 2015
- Damn truth, 2016
- Hotel Lutetia, 2017
- Irina, 2018
- The spring epidemic, 2018
Among his published stories we have: the life after death collaboration with Pablo Bonell and published in The blacklist, 2009. The day I'm going to lose sight of the world published in She also killed 2013. For more on the black genre read the Book The Dagger by Jorge Fernandez Diaz.