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María Dueñas


Born
in Puerto Llano, Ciudad Real, Spain
January 01, 1964

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Historical Fiction, Romance


María Dueñas Vinuesa was born on 1964 in Puertollano, Spain. She has seven siblings. She is a professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Murcia, and is also an academic author and has worked at different universities in North America. She came into the spotlight in 2009, achieving great success in Spain thanks to her first novel, El tiempo entre costuras, published in English language as The Time in Between and The Seamstress, a historical espionage novel, which sold more than a million copies. It has already been translated into more than 25 different languages.

María Dueñas is marrried with Manuel Ballesteros, also a professor, and they have two children, the family lives in Cartagena.

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Average rating: 4.05 · 94,845 ratings · 9,396 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors
The Time in Between
4.21 avg rating — 54,439 ratings — published 2009 — 160 editions
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Sira
3.90 avg rating — 9,726 ratings — published 2021
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Por si un día volvemos
4.24 avg rating — 8,177 ratings — published 2025 — 21 editions
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Las hijas del capitán
3.74 avg rating — 9,027 ratings — published 2018 — 44 editions
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La templanza
3.71 avg rating — 6,051 ratings — published 2015 — 19 editions
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Misión olvido
3.48 avg rating — 6,408 ratings — published 2012 — 68 editions
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El tiempo entre costuras / ...
4.53 avg rating — 311 ratings — 3 editions
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Jodidísimas
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3.95 avg rating — 251 ratings — published 2021
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El tiempo entre costuras / ...
4.62 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2012
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La Templanza / Un paseo por...
4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2016
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“My fear didn't want to be left behind, so it came with me.”
― María Dueñas, The Time in Between
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“Y descubrí también, con la más inmensa desazón, que en cualquier momento y sin causa aparente, todo aquello que creemos estable puede desajustarse, desviarse, torcer su rumbo y empezar a cambiar.”
― María Dueñas, El tiempo entre costuras
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“Normality wasn't in the days I'd left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path each morning.”
― Maria Duenas
tags: fortune, life-philosophy, normality, past-and-future
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