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Elvira Navarro (1978) studied Philosophy. She has published La ciudad en invierno (Caballo de Troya, 2007), La ciudad feliz (Literatura Random House, 2009), La trabajadora (Literatura Random House, 2014) and Los últimos días de Adelaida García Morales (Literatura Random House, 2016). Her work has been awarded with the Jaen Literary Award and Premio Tormenta Prize in the ‘Best novel author’ category.
Her last work is La isla de los Conejos (Literatura Random House, 2019). She was listed in the renowned magazine Granta’s Top 22 Spanish-speaking narrators under 35 years old. In 2014, El Cultural magazine selected La trabajadora as one of the top books written in Spanish that year. In 2019, El País newspaper supplement Babelia included La isla de los Conejos in their yearly literary top 10. La isla de los conejos won the Andalusian Critics Choice Awards in 2020 and was longlisted for the National Book Award.
In 2015, Elvira worked as a publisher for Caballo de Troya. Her work has been translated into English, French, Swedish, Italian and Turkish.