The creator of fantasy and realistic worlds, from imaginary kingdoms to scenes from the Spanish Civil War. A writer who won the 1954 Planeta Award and the 2010 Cervantes Award. She was the custodian of Seat K in the Royal Spanish Academy for 16 years, and the third woman to find a place among the academics. This novelist, a leading author of children’s and young adult literature, needs no more introduction than her long, prolific and successful career: from her first book, Los Abel, where we face demons and the misery of the war and post-war period, to her last published novel, Paraísos inhabitados, where we explore the hypnotic world of a girl. Matute's pen is a safe refuge for readers who like to lose themselves in the pages of a book. Our memory of the writer is all around us, from the plaque on the façade of her family's home, very near the El Putxet FGC train station, to the street that was named after her a year ago, on the dividing line between the districts of Gràcia and Horta-Guinardó.
A benchmark novelist in children's and young adult literature, she was the third woman to join the Real Academia Española. Her long, prolific career earned her numerous awards, such as the 1954 Planeta and the 2010 Cervantes.