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Susana Fortes


Born
Pontevedra, Spain
Genre
Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Romance


Susana Fortes (Pontevedra, Spain, 1959) graduated in Geography and History at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, and in American History from the Universidad de Barcelona. She has recently spent time in the USA, combining teaching Spanish in Louisiana and participating in university conferences at the Universidad Interestatal de San Francisco. She currently teaches at a secondary school in Valencia. With her first novel, Querido Corto Maltés (Dear Corto Maltés), she won the 1994 Premio Nuevos Narradores. In 2001 she was shortlisted in the Premio Primavera awarded by Espasa for her novel, Fronteras de arena (Borders of Sand). She has also published Las cenizas de la Bounty (Ashes of the Bounty; Espasa, 1998), Tiernos y traidores (Ten ...more

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Average rating: 3.24 · 3,086 ratings · 378 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors
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“We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body but what is inscribed in the man.”
― Susana Fortes
tags: expression, life-story, love, love-quote, man, story
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“All that interior violence and complication to defend themselves from the very tenderness.”
― Susana Fortes, Waiting for Robert Capa
tags: being-vulnerable-in-love, expressing-love, love, loving-someone, protection-from-love, tenderness
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“To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to.”
― Susana Fortes, Waiting for Robert Capa
tags: life-lessons, love, people, photo, photographing, photographing-people, photography
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