Carmen Posadas (born August 13, 1953, in
Montevideo) is a prize-winning
Uruguayan-
Spanish author of books for children. She also writes for film and television. She is a recipient of the
Premio Planeta de Novela.
Biography
She was born in
Montevideo in 1953 as the daughter of an
Uruguayan diplomat. She has lived in
Madrid since 1965. Besides Madrid, she has also lived in many capital cities including
Moscow,
Buenos Aires, and
London where her father was ambassador.
She went to
Oxford University but left before graduating when she married Rafael de Cueto. They had two children, Sofía (1975) and Jimena (1978). She later divorced de Cueto and married
Mariano Rubio. In 1985, she was granted Spanish nationality. In 1988, she became a host on Spanish public television
RTVE.
She began her literary career in 1980 writing books for children. In 1984, she won the Premio Nacional de Literatura (Spanish prize of literature). In 1996 she published her first novel, Cinco Moscas Azules (Five Blue Flies) which was one of the most original and successful books of the year. Her second novel, Pequeñas infamias (Little Indiscretions), won the coveted
Planeta Prize in 1998. Since then, she has sold more a million copies in more than fifty countries and she has been translated in 23 languages.
More recent successful books are "Childs Play" and "The Red Ribbon".
Her brother,
Gervasio Posadas, is also a prize-winning novelist.