Alicia Gim nez-Bartlett is one of Spain's most popular and beloved crime novelists. She was born in Almansa, Spain, in 1951 and has lived in Barcelona since 1975. After the enormous success of her first novels, she decided to leave her work as a teacher of Spanish literature to dedicate herself full-time to writing. In 1997, she was awarded the Femenino Lumen prize for the best female writer in Spain, and in 2015 she was awarded the prestigious Planeta Prize for her novel, Naked Men. Andrea Rosenberg translates from Spanish and Portuguese. Her work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, The Quarterly Conversation, The Iowa Review, Words Without Borders, and other publications. Andrea Rosenberg translates from Spanish and Portuguese. Among her published translations are Aura Xilonen's The Gringo Champion (Europa, 2017), Juan G mez B rcena's The Sky Over Lima (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), David Jim nez's Children of the Monsoon (Autumn Hill Books, 2014), and Lina Meruane's Viral Voyages: Tracing AIDS in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Her work has appeared in a variety of publications including Words Without Borders, Drunken Boat, the Buenos Aires Review, The Iowa Review, The Quarterly Conversation, and In Translation.
"Praise for Naked Men ""Giménez-Bartlett's stinging commentary on masculine fragility...pairs well with her exploration of feminine restraints...This provocative dive into gender, power, and class uses diverse viewpoints to craft a powerful story and an unpredictable, memorable ending."" --Publishers Weekly ""Giménez-Bartlett has based her contemporary classics on satirizing uncomfortable reality. In Naked Men, which won the Planeta Prize, offense comes from the economic collapse."" --El País ""The novel spans the human condition in its entirety. Giménez-Bartlett displays a whole gallery of diverse human characteristics."" --El Cultural ""A stark realist portrait of characters who are searching for their place in a world without redemption."" --Culturamas ""A novel as provocative as it is necessary."" --El Mundo"