Overview
- Centenary appreciations note her standing as one of the foremost Spanish writers of the 20th century, born in Salamanca on December 8, 1925.
- Coverage elevates her poetry alongside her fiction, revisiting A rachas (1976), Poemas posteriores (1986) and the collected Después de todo / Poesía a rachas (1993) published by Hiperión, with editor Jesús Munárriz recalling her initial reluctance to gather her verse.
- Retrospectives recount a prize-laden career, from the Premio Café Gijón (1954) and Premio Nadal for Entre visillos (1957) to the Premio Nacional de Narrativa for El cuarto de atrás (1978) and the 1988 Prince of Asturias for Literature.
- Writers underscore her self-described 'literatura de interiores,' highlighting her focus on memory, the porous line between life and literature, postwar social constraints and the female experience.
- Biographical context features her Salamanca and Galician roots, her marriage and 1970 separation from Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, the 1985 death of her daughter Marta, and teaching and lectures in the United States at Yale, Barnard College and the University of Virginia.