BANÚS, MARTA

Marta Banús is one of those late blooming writers, if we take into account that it wasn’t until her late fifties that she decided to face some blank pages and write her first novel. It was called El safareig dels morts and was published by Columna in 2012 and set in a textile colony in Llobregat in 1921.

She’s also taken her first steps with short stories. La monja bastarda is her first and surprising entrance into the historical novel, where she offers us a thrilling story of an historical character, quite unknown to the world, but who fascinated her and to whom she’s devoted a long and thorough research.