Alicia Giménez Bartlett

Alicia Giménez Bartlett (born 10 June 1951 in Almansa, Albacete, Spain) is a Spanish writer particularly known for her series of detective novels with protagonist Petra Delicado.

Biography

Her first novel, Exit was published in 1984. In 1997, she published Una habitación ajena (A Faraway Room) concerning the tensions between the lesbian writer Virginia Woolf and her servant "Nelly", and this won her the Premio Femenino Singular.

The Petra Delicado novels have been published in various languages and are very popular in Germany and Italy. In 1999 Petra Delicado appeared as the protagonist of a television series. Four of her novels have been used for an Italian TV four-part series: Petra, first broadcast in September 2020. In 2011 Bartlett won the Premio Nadal for Donde nadie te encuentre.

She has lived in Barcelona since 1975.