Journalist, writer and war correspondent, Maruja Torres is a key witness of events and a representative of a whole generation of critical thinking. Self-taught, her first contact with the media was in 1963, as secretary and editor of the daily paper La Prensa. In the 1960s she worked for Garbo magazine, and also published articles in Fotogramas, El País and La Calle. In the early 1980s, she moved to Madrid and joined the editorial staff of El País, which at that time was under the direction of Rosa Montero. As a war correspondent during the American invasion of Panama in 1989, she witnessed the murder of photographer Juantxu Rodríguez, who was shot dead by the US army. She lived in Beirut for several years, covering the conflict in Lebanon, before finally returning to Barcelona, where she combined publishing books and writing articles for the press. In 2013 she resigned as opinion editor at El País, and since then has been a contributor to El Diario. She won the Premio Planeta in 2000 for her novel While We Live, and also the Premio Nadal in 2009 for Wait for Me in Heaven.
A journalist, writer and war correspondent, she is an essential witness and representative of an entire generation of critical thinking. She has won the Planeta (2000) and Nadal (2009) awards, among others.