SILVIA GRIJALBA

Silvia Grijalba was born in Madrid in 1967. She is a novelist, journalist and songwriter. She published her first novel, Alivio Rápido (Quick Relief), in 2001, followed by Atrapada en el Limbo (Trapped in Limbo) in 2005.

In 1995 she wrote a biography about Depeche Mode. She has also published the essays Dios Salve a la Movida (God Save the Movida, about the Movida Madrileña, Madrid pop scene of the 80's') in 2006 and Palabra de Rock.  Antolología de letristas españoles (Word of Rock.  Anthology of Spanish Lyricists), an anthology of the best Spanish rock poets, in 2008. Her work has been translated into Italian and German.

As a journalist, Silvia Grijalba is one of the essential names in musical journalism and counterculture of the last two decades. She has worked - and still collaborates - in the Culture section of the Spanish publication El Mundo since it was founded, coordinating the music section and reporting on pop culture and counterculture. She has collaborated in magazines such as Rolling Stone, Vogue, Marie Claire, Glamour, Yo Dona, British newspaper The Guardian and TV and radio programmes (Noches Blancas, Dragolandia and D Calle).

Silvia is the director of the Spoken Word Palabra y Música festival and the annual series Poesía del Rock.

Her novel Atrapada en el Limbo (Trapped in Limbo) is in pre-production phase, while she is working on the script together with director and screenwriter Manuel Martín Cuenca.

She's been awarded with the Fernando Lara de Novela Award with her last novel, Contigo aprendí (I Learnt With You).