Concha Espina, the writer who almost won the Nobel Prize

This is the beginning of an article recently published by the writer María Viedma, on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the death of Concha Espina. María will present to us the life and work of this prolific writer and journalist, winner of the Spanish National Prize for Literature in 1927 and for many years a candidate for the world's highest award for literature, the Nobel Prize. She was also a campaigner who had to combat the machismo of the time that she was living in, both professionally and also in her personal life.

María Viedma García has a degree in Philosophy from the University of Málaga and is the author of numerous articles and works related to the history of women. Among them, the essay History of Freemasonry from a gender perspective, which was awarded the XVI María Isidra de Guzmán Research Prize from the Alcalá de Henares Town Council. With the novel El mar de Salomón (The Sea of Solomon) she then moved on to writing literary fiction. In 2019 she published the historical novel TAXIL. Nunca digas la verdad (TAXIL. Never tell the truth). She is currently working on her third novel.