Antía Yáñez

Antía Yáñez (Burela, 1991). Writer and civil engineer, although she has never worked in the profession. Her work has been awarded with different prizes for short stories and both children and adult titles.

She currently combines writing with the direction of an academy in Cecebre (Cambre), and she teaches writing workshops for girls and boys.

She writes for children and young adults and her last book, Plan de rescate, has deserved the 3rd Agustín Fernández Paz for The Equality Award (2019). But she also writes for adults. Her feminist struggle led her to vindicate women's freedom in her first novel, Senlleiras, which earned unanimous acclaim both from the critics and readers.

With No pienses en un elefante rosa, published in Galician, Catalan and Spanish at the same time, Yáñez makes a great leap and offers an extraordinarily funny novel about how to be an adult as a millennial, which deals with mental illness and invites you to take the life with humor.

I have always loved reading, so writing has been a natural evolution. Create my own worlds instead of just visiting others.

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