Begoña Huertas was born on 4 August[1] 1965 in Gijón.[2][3] She completed her doctorate in Spanish philology at the Autonomous University of Madrid,[2][4] specializing in Latin American literature.[5] Huertas was a visiting lecturer at University of Michigan, then continued as a research fellow at the University of Barcelona.[6]
Huertas worked as an editor at various publishing houses[6] and also taught creative writing at the Autonomous University of Madrid.[6][7] She wrote for Spanish cultural magazines and in 2010–2012 wrote opinion pieces for the Público,[2] later becoming a columnist for ElDiario.es.[6]
In 1993, Huertas won the Casa de las Américas Prize for the essay Ensayo de un cambio: la narrativa cubana en la década de los 80.[3][8] She then published a short story collection called A tragos (1996) and continued writing fiction with a number of novels,[2] such as Una noche en Amalfi which was compared by RTVE to the works of Patricia Highsmith.[9] Her last novel, El sótano, was published posthumously by Editorial Anagrama in 2023.[3][10] Writing for El País, Carlos Zanón [es] called it a "beautiful testament",[3] while Anna María Iglesia [es] described it in El Mundo as a "wonderful invitation to reflect on the uncertainty of life and writing".[11]
Huertas died on 25 December 2022, in Madrid.[8][10]
