The work of this publisher, writer and essayist was constantly linked with women. Doces relatos de mujeres [Twelve Stories about Women], Madres e hijas [Mothers and Daughters], La niña lunática y otros cuentos [The Lunatic Girl and Other Stories] and the collection “A Favor de las Niñas” [In Favour of Girls] are all good examples. She studied Philology and Humanities at the universities of Barcelona and Madrid, specialising in history. With her second work, El amor es un juego solitario [Love is a Solitary Game], the second book of a trilogy, she won the City of Barcelona prize in 1979. She combined writing with her work as a publisher, and she ran the publishing company Editorial Lumen for 40 years. Its hallmark was a commitment to quality authors, including Ana María Matute, Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag.
A publisher, writer and essayist, she was at the helm of the Editorial Lumen publishing house for 40 years, where she advocated high-quality authors. In 1978, she published her first novel, El mismo mar de todos los veranos.