Inés Marful
writer
Inés Marful (born 1961), also known as Inés Marful Amor, is a Spanish scholar, writer, and visual artist from Asturias, known for her scholarly work about Federico García Lorca. Her novel Cuatro Cuentos de Amor y El Intocable Absurdo won the 2008 Casino Mieres Novel Award.
Biography
Marful was born in 1961 in Mieres, Spain. She holds a doctorate in Spanish literature from the University of Oviedo, and has worked as a professor at the University of Oviedo and University of Valladolid. After 1999, Marful worked as a political counselor in the government of Spain and as a photojournalist and columnist.
Writing
Marful has written scholarly analyses of the works of Federico García Lorca, as well as several novels. Her work includes a critical essay titled "Passion and Death in Lorquian Drama" (Pasión y muerte en el drama lorquiano), published in the 1987 collection A Federico García Lorca. She is the author of Lorca y sus dobles (Lorca and his doubles), an essay described by Manuel Alvar in Blanco y Negro as "the definitive work on the poet from Granada".
Her novels include Te sucederá lo que al río en primavera (You will be as the river in springtime), published in 1998 and described as a "misiva de una mujer a su madre fallecida" ("letter from a woman to her deceased mother") by Ramón Massó Ortega in Historia Sinóptica de la Literatura Española. She also wrote Instrucciones para olvidar (Instructions to forget), published in 2008 and described as "una magnífica novela que huele a agua de lluvia y de mar" ("a magnificent novel that smells of rain and sea water") by María Castrejón in Que Me Estoy Muriendo De Agua: Guía de narrativa lésbica española.
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