MB Agencia Literaria

Cristina Fallarás is a journalist and a writer. She lives in Barcelona and has worked as a journalist for various media (newspapers, radio, and TV)—among others, El Mundo (managing editor and columnist); El Periódico de Cataluña (collaborator in a series of interviews); ADN (deputy editor); Cadena Ser (writer); RNE (creator and deputy director of the morning Day show on Vista/R4); Antena3 television and Cuatro television. She also participated in the project of the daily online newspaper Factual, where she produced and served as deputy editor. Currently, she manages Sigueleyendo, a website of books, readers and authors.

Her books published to-date include: La otra Enciclopedia Catalana (Belacqva, 2002); Rupturas (Urano, 2003); No acaba la noche (Planeta, 2006); and Así murió el poeta Guadalupe (Alianza, 2009), shortlisted for the International Dashiel Hammett Prize for detective fiction, Las niñas perdidas (Roca Editorial, 2011) winner of the L'H Confidencial Prize 2011 and Hammett Prize 2012, and  Últimos días en el puesto del Este (DVD, 2011; Salto de Página, 2013) awarded with the City of Barbastro LXII International Short Novel  Prize. Her story The Severed Hand was published in the anthology Barcelona Noir (Akashik Books, New York, 2011). Her latest work, A la puta calle ( Planeta 2013), is a first-person chronicle of an eviction.