by Zoé Valdés · Editorial Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408013914
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«La mujer que llora» is the novel by Zoé Valdés that won the Azorín Prize 2013, published by Editorial Planeta in hardback, with 384 pages in Spanish.
A writer reconstructs the life of Dora Maar, photographer and surrealist artist, until her encounter with Pablo Picasso changes everything. Turned into lover and muse, she travels to Venice and, on returning to Paris, shuts herself away forever in her apartment. The novel explores the personal cost of that passion lived in the bohemian Paris of the thirties.
Published in the Autores Españoles e Iberoamericanos collection, it received the Azorín Prize for Fiction 2013.
For readers of contemporary and historical fiction and for those interested in Picasso's circle, Dora Maar and surrealism.
Zoé Valdés is a Cuban novelist, poet, scriptwriter, film director and blogger. She studied at the Instituto Superior Pedagógico Enrique José Varona, but did not graduate. From 1984 to 1988, she worked for the Delegación de Cuba at UNESCO in Paris and in the Oficina Cultural de la Misión de Cuba in Paris. From 1990 to 1995, she was an editor of the magazine Cine Cubano. She lives with her daughter in Paris. She has been married three times: with Cuban writer Manuel Pereira Quintero, Cuban government official José Antonio González and Cuban independent filmmaker Ricardo Vega.
