Occupation Novelist, professor Role Writer Name Maria Duenas | Genre Historical novel Nationality Spanish | |
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Books The Time In Between, The Seamstress, The Heart Has Its Reasons Profiles | ||
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María Dueñas Vinuesa (Puertollano, 1964) is a Spanish writer.
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Maria Duenas Discusses THE TIME IN BETWEEN
Life
María Dueñas is a professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Murcia. She has seven siblings and lives in Cartagena. She is also an academic author and has worked at different universities in North America.
She came into the spotlight in 2009, achieving great success in Spain thanks to her first novel, El tiempo entre costuras, published in English language as The Time in Between and The Seamstress, a historical espionage novel, which sold more than a million copies. It has already been translated into more than 25 different languages.
The novel has also won a number of literary awards such as the Historical Novel Award from the City of Cartagena, the top prize at this annual week long celebration of the historical novel; or the 2011 Culture Award for Literature. It was adapted for television as a same-titled series produced by the Spanish television network Antena 3.
El tiempo entre costuras revolves around the figure of Sira Quiroga, a seamstress who moves to Morocco with her boyfriend right before the uprising that would lead to the Spanish Civil War. There, after many setbacks, she will open her own sewing workshop.
Dueñas had great success again in 2012 when she published her second novel, Misión Olvido, publishes in English as The Heart Has Its Reasons. This time, the setting goes back and forth between the Spanish Missions in California and Contemporary Spain. Misión Olvido reached its fifth edition on January 25, 2013 with over half a million copies sold and was awarded the Culture Award for Literature by the Region of Madrid.
Her third novel, La Templanza, set in 19th century Mexico City, Havana and Jerez de la Frontera, was released in Spain on 17 March 2015. Following the success of the television adaptation of El tiempo entre costuras, Antena 3 announced the production of a television series based on La Templanza.