2026Literature - Ana María Matute - First Day Cover

Ana María Matute was born in the summer of 1935 in Barcelona. With a Catalan father and a Castilian mother, she spent her childhood between Madrid and Barcelona, ​​growing up as a child of both cities and of neither at the same time. This early uprooting made her a solitary child who, like so many others, found refuge in books: her true school, the place where the writer she would later become began to take shape. At just seventeen, she wrote her first play, *Pequeño teatro* (Little Theater), although it wasn't published until eleven years later.