Maite Carranza

Maite Carranza Gil-Dolz del Castellar (born 25 February 1958) is a Spanish writer and educator, mainly writing in Catalan. She is a recipient of the Premio Crítica Serra d'Or, TP de Oro award, Premio Ondas award, and the Spanish National Prize for Children's and Juvenile Literature.

Biography She was born in Barcelona. She completed studies in anthropology in 1980 and then taught secondary school for the next ten years. Carranza published her first novel Ostres, tu, quin cacau! In 1986; it was awarded the for children's and juvenile literature. Her bestseller Trilogía de las Brujas ("Trilogy of Witches") has been translated into more than twenty languages. In 1999, she wrote her first novel for adults Sin invierno, which was also her first work in Spanish. In 2014, she received the Premi Cervantes Chico de literatura infantil i juvenil for her work.