MB Agencia Literaria

Ana Alonso has lived for almost all her life in Leon. A biologist by training, she is a writer and translator. She has written five books of poetry, which have earned several prizes: second winner of the Adonais Prize 2003 for Vidrios, vasos, luz, tardes, the Hiperón Poetry Prize for Atlas, which was also awarded the Critical Eye Award in 2006, and the International Poetry Prize ‘Antonio Machado in Baeza’ for her work Rostros. She has also translated Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

After the success of Versos piratas, piratas en verso (Anaya, 2009) she has published Los instantes perfectos (Oxford, 2010) and the series for children Pizca de Sal (Anaya, 2010-2012), with twenty-two titles published and several re-editions, is a collection introducing boys and girls to issues of the real world through its funny and imaginative stories and characters.

With co-author Javier Pelegrín, she has published the successful La llave del tiempo (Anaya, 2006-2008), a series of fantasy and sci-fi for a middle-grade audience that are continually being reprinted and will be translated into English, French and Italian. In 2008, she and Javier Pelegrín won the Barco de Vapor Prize for the novel entitled El secreto de If (SM, 2008).

With Javier Pelegrín as co-author, her most recent books include the graphic-novel La ciudad transparente (El jinete azul, 2010), the young-adult  YA urban fantasy trilogy Tatuaje (Viceversa) and Fuego Azul (Anaya, 2011), the first volume of the YA historical fantasy series Djinn.

Their next project is the middle-grade series Agencia Salamandra. Volumes 1 and 2 of these magical detective stories will be released in May 2012 by La Galera.

 http://www.anaalonsoenglish.blogspot.com/