Rebeca Quintáns

Rebeca Quintáns graduated in Spanish Philology by the University of Santiago de Compostela. She got a doctorate in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid with a thesis about the speech of Juan Carlos I.^[2]

Her first book, Un Rey golpe a golpe (A King coup by coup), was released by the publisher Ardi Beltza and signed under the pseudonym of Patricia Sverlo for security reasons.^[3] It was the sequel of her doctoral thesis, which in words of the author: "there was so much contrast between the truth of the figure of Juan Carlos and the image created in the media during the Transition that I was looking forward to tell all that".^[2]

As a journalist she has written in various media both conventional (Interviú, Tiempo, El Semanal or El Correo Gallego among others) and alternative (Ardi Beltza, Kale Gorria, El Otro País, No a la Guerra or Diagonal). She is also a Secondary school teacher and has worked as an associate professor in the Faculty of Information Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid.^[4]

In 2016 she published Juan Carlos I: la biografía sin silencios (Juan Carlos I: the biography without silences), an updated extension of the trajectory of the king emeritus where she reviews different aspects of his life not treated by conventional media.^[5][6]

• Un Rey golpe a golpe. Biografía no autorizada de Juan Carlos de Borbón (2000). Under the pseudonym of Patricia Sverlo.^[7]
• Gran Hermano: el precio de la dignidad (2000). With Andrés Sánchez Díaz.^[8]
• Juan Carlos I: la biografía sin silencios (2016).^[9]