Corín Tellado
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Socorro Tellado López , known as Corín Tellado (born April 25, 1927, Viavélez, Asturias, Spain) is a prolific Spanish writer of romantic novels and photonovels, best-seller in several Castillian-language countries. She has published more than 4,000 novels and sold more than 400 millions of books which have been translated to several languages. She's listed in the 1994 Guinness World Records as the author who has sold more books written in Spanish Language than any other author .
Her novels are quite different from her other contemporary European romantic writers' works, because she usually ambient them in the present time and doesn't use eroticism. She is keen to use a direct style and to analyse her characters but not to use pompous descriptions. These novels have inspired several telenovelas.
[edit] Biography
She was the only girl of 5 siblings. Her mother was a house-wife and her father was a naval mechanic of the merchant navy.
In 1939, after the war, her father promoted to First Officer and the whole family went to Cádiz. She studied in a school run by nun, and she used to read a lot.
Her father died in 1945 and the family started to have economical problems, she sold her first novel, Atrevida apuesta, to the publishing house, Editorial Bruguera in 1946 for 3,000 pesetas, this publishing house contracted her to write one short novel every week, she would have later problems with this publishing house
She started to study Psychology but did not finish, and in 1948, she went back to Asturias with her mother.
She married Domingo Egusquizaga in 1959 in Covadonga and one year later she gave birth to her first child, Begoña, and in 1961 to her second child, Domingo. In 1962 , the couple separate.
[edit] Selected bibliography
- Atrevida apuesta,1946, first novel
- Especial Venus,1979, collection of erotic novels
- Lucha oculta,1991, a long novel, her favorite novel
