Begoña Huertas

Begoña Huertas Uhagón (1965–2022) was a Spanish writer and journalist. She won the Casa de las Américas Prize for her essay Ensayo de un cambio: la narrativa cubana en la década de los 80.

Biography Begoña Huertas was born on 4 August 1965 in Gijón. She completed her doctorate in Spanish philology at the Autonomous University of Madrid, specializing in Latin American literature. Huertas was a visiting lecturer at University of Michigan, then continued as a research fellow at the University of Barcelona.

Huertas worked as an editor at various publishing houses She wrote for Spanish cultural magazines and in 2010–2012 wrote opinion pieces for the Público, She then published a short story collection called A tragos (1996) and continued writing fiction with a number of novels, Her last novel, El sótano, was published posthumously by Editorial Anagrama in 2023.

Huertas died on 25 December 2022, in Madrid.

Works

Essays

Ensayo de un cambio: la narrativa cubana en la década de los 80, 1994

Short story collections

A tragos, 1996 El desconcierto, 2017 El sótano, 2023