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Courtney y Yo
Con motivo de la reedición corregida y revisada del primer -y buscadísimo- libro de la autora (una polémica biografía de una de las más escandalosas parejas del rock, la formada por Courtney Love y Kurt Cobain), Lucía Etxebarria retoma estos dos míticos personajes para escribir un nuevo ensayo, original y ameno, en el que se reflexiona sobre la fama, el peso del éxito, la maternidad, la moda, la música e incluso el suicidio y cómo la percepción de la sociedad sobre estos temas ha cambiado en los últimos diez años, los transcurridos exactamete desde la muerte de Kurt.
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280 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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About the author
Lucía Etxebarria
48 books214 followersLucía Etxebarria de Asteinza is a Spanish writer. She was born in Valencia in 1966, of Basque parents as her name suggests, the youngest of seven children. The Basque surname Etxebarria has no diacritics, although its Spanish version Echevarría has. Etxebarría was a typo that she liked and adopted as a nom de plume, though it is not used in all her books.
Her first book was Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love’s biography: La historia de Kurt y Courtney: aguanta esto (1996). Her first novel, Amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas (1997) received Ana María Matute's support, and situated her in the Generacion Kronen scope. The following year her second novel, Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes, won the Nadal prize.
With De todo lo visible y lo invisible (2001) she won the Primavera Prize. With Un milagro en equilibrio, she obtained the 53rd Planeta Prize in 2004. In addition to these books and many other titles she has published poetry; her collection Actos de placer y amor won the Barcarola Poetry Prize in 2004. She has published two collections of feminist essays, and has also worked as a scriptwriter.
In 2011, Etxebarria said she would stop writing, claiming that digital piracy of her books had made writing not worth the effort.
Her first book was Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love’s biography: La historia de Kurt y Courtney: aguanta esto (1996). Her first novel, Amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas (1997) received Ana María Matute's support, and situated her in the Generacion Kronen scope. The following year her second novel, Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes, won the Nadal prize.
With De todo lo visible y lo invisible (2001) she won the Primavera Prize. With Un milagro en equilibrio, she obtained the 53rd Planeta Prize in 2004. In addition to these books and many other titles she has published poetry; her collection Actos de placer y amor won the Barcarola Poetry Prize in 2004. She has published two collections of feminist essays, and has also worked as a scriptwriter.
In 2011, Etxebarria said she would stop writing, claiming that digital piracy of her books had made writing not worth the effort.
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