Scriitoarea maria duenas biography

For the musician, see María Dueñas (violinist).

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal family name is Dueñas and the second or maternal family name is Vinuesa.

María Dueñas Vinuesa (1964) is a Spanish writer and professor.

Scriitoarea maria duenas biography

She rose to fame in 2009 with El tiempo entre costuras, her first novel, which became one of the best-selling works of Spanish literature in recent years and has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.

Life

María Dueñas Vinuesa was born in Puertollano in 1964.

She earned a licentiate degree in English Philology from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) in 1987 and a Master of Arts in Romance and Classical Languages from Michigan State University (MSU) in 1989. She moved to Cartagena in the 1990s.

While preparing for her doctoral degree, she worked as teacher at the Military Base of Los Alcázares. She earned a position as senior lecturer at the University of Murcia, where she worked for around two deca