Milagros Frías

Milagros Frías (born 1955) is a Spanish writer, journalist and literary reviewer. She was born in Jerez de los Caballeros, Spain.

Biography

Milagros Frias (born in Jerez de los Caballeros, Badajoz, in 1955) is a Spanish writer, journalist and literary reviewer. She is graduated in Information Sciences at Complutense University of Madrid, where she also studied Sociology. She has always focused her career on journalism and cultural issues. Moreover, she has been connected with publishing industry. She was editor of the magazine Nueva Empresa for a while and she contributed in the newspaper Ya and Gaceta de Pozuelo. Nowadays she works in the publishing sector as a literary reviewer in the magazine Leer.

Her most famous Spanish novels are La sal de la vida (Espasa Calpe, 1999), Ars Amandi (Espasa Calpe, 2000), Paisajes de invierno (Alianza Editorial, 2003), La alambrada de Levi (Language of Rag, 2006) and Amor en un campo de minas (Algaida, 2013), among others. She also published numerous tales in collective volumes and she wrote the long story L 'Ennui for the collection La Casa Ciega (Editorial Edaf, 2005).

She was awarded the Premio Torrente Ballester (which was celebrated in Madrid) in its XXI edition, thanks to her penultimate novel El verano de la nutria; an adventurous novel, full of nuances, which turns into a dramatic experience.