Concha Alós

Concha Alós was born in Valencia in 1926. Her childhood in Castellón and wartime relocation to  Lorca, Murcia, inspired her novel The Red Horse (1966). In 1962, her entry for the Planeta Prize, The Sun and the Beasts, was disqualified due to prior publication, but she won the prize in 1964 with The Bonfires. Other notable works include The Madam (1969), King of Cats. Anthropophagous Narrations (1972), and Electra Speaks to You (1975). She passed away in Barcelona in 2011.