Lucía María Echevarría de Asteinza[2] was born inValencia in 1966, daughter of José Ignacio Echevarría Gorroño and Lucía de Asteinza Stocke, ofBasque parents as their names suggests, the youngest of seven children. The Basque surnameEtxebarria has no diacritics, although its Spanish versionEchevarría has.Etxebarría was a typo that she liked and adopted as anom de plume, though it is not used in all her books.
Her first book wasKurt Cobain andCourtney Love's biography:La historia de Kurt y Courtney: aguanta esto (1996). Her first novel,Amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas (1997) receivedAna María Matute's support, and situated her in the Generacion Kronen scope. The following year her second novel,Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes, won theNadal Prize.[3]
WithDe todo lo visible y lo invisible (2001) she won thePrimavera Prize. WithUn milagro en equilibrio, she obtained the 53rdPlaneta Prize in 2004.[4] In addition to these books and many other titles she has published poetry; her collectionActos de placer y amor won theBarcarola Poetry Prize in 2004. She has published two collections offeminist essays, and has also worked as a scriptwriter.
In 2011, Etxebarria said she would stop writing, claiming thatdigital redistribution of her books had made writing not worth the effort because ofpiracy.[5]
The following bibliography is probably incomplete. Also, note that English language editions of Etxebarria's work are not currently available, and the title translations provided below may well not correspond to titles eventually used in the English edition of these books.
La historia de Kurt y Courtney: aguanta esto (1996), biography (The Story of Kurt and Courtney: Live Through This)
Amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas (1997), novel (Love, Curiosity, Prozac and Doubts)
Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes (1998), novel (Beatrice and the Heavenly Bodies)
Nosotras que no somos como las demas (1999) (We Who Are Not Like the Rest)
La futura Eva, La letra futura (2000), essays (The Future Eve, Future Writing)
De todo lo visible y lo invisible (2001), novel (All Things Visible and Invisible)
Estación de Infierno (2001), poetry (Hell Station) - The title is a wordplay on the double meaning of “estación” as both “station” and “season”; “Estación de invierno” would be “Winter Season.”
En brazos de la mujer fetiche (2002), essays (In the Arms of the Fetish Woman)
Una historia de amor como otra cualquiera (2003), novel (A Love Story Like All the Rest)
Un milagro en equilibrio (2004), novel (A Miracle in the Balance)
Courtney y yo (2004), biography (Courtney and Me)(reedition of The Story of Kurt and Courtney: Live Through This)
Actos de amor y placer (2005), poetry (Acts of Love and Pleasure)
Voces desde y hacia Palestina (2005), editor
Ya no sufro por amor (2006), self-help (I No Longer Suffer for Love)
Cosmofobia (2007), novel (Cosmophobia)
El club de las malas madres (2009), essays with Goyo Bustos
Lo verdadero es un momento de lo falso (2010)
El contenido del silencio (2012), novel (The Content of Silence)
Tu corazón no está bien de la cabeza (2013), self-help (second part of "Ya no sufro por amor")
El contenido del silencio (2011)
Dios no tiene tiempo libre (2013)
Cuentos clásicos para chicas modernas (2013)
Liquidación por derribo. Cómo se gestó la que está cayendo (2013), essays (On sale for demolition. How was managed what it is coming now)
Flores para Sally (2014), theater (Flowers for Sally)
Dios no tiene tiempo libre (2014), theater (God has no free time)
Más peligroso es no amar (2016), essays (It is more dangerous not to love)
Le don empoisonné de la folie (2017), novel (The poisoned gift of madness)
Por qué el amor nos duele tanto (2017), novel (Why love hurts so much)
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