María DueñasPlaywright

María Dueñas

b. 1964 · Spanish

Biography

María Dueñas was born in Puertollano in 1964. She studied English philology at the Complutense University of Madrid, earned her doctorate at the University of Murcia and taught English philology there for about two decades. Her first novel, El tiempo entre costuras (The Time in Between), appeared in 2009 and tells a spy story about a young seamstress during the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. It became one of the best selling Spanish novels of recent years, was translated into many languages and was adapted as a television series by Antena 3 in 2013. Later novels include Misión olvido, La templanza and Las hijas del capitán. Iván Macías and Félix Amador turned her debut into a musical that premiered in Zaragoza in December 2021.

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