Cristina Fallarás

Cristina Fallarás studied at Autonomous University of Barcelona. The recorded working language is Spanish. Works named in the authority record are Las niñas perdidas and Honrarás a tu padre y a tu madre. Distinctions recorded are L'H Confidencial Award and Premio Hammett.

She studied journalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She was editor-in-chief of the Catalan edition of El Mundo and also worked in the newsrooms of Cadena Ser, Radio Nacional de España, El Periódico de Cataluña, Antena 3 and Telecinco. She participated in the design of the editorial project of the newspaper ADN, which belongs to Grupo Planeta, which she co-founded and where she worked as assistant director until 2008. From 27 November 2006 to 19 February 2012 she published a blog in which she shared her thoughts and experiences. From September 2016 to February 2017, she was the director of the digital version of Diario 16. She announced her resignation on her Twitter account, claiming that working conditions at the company were unacceptable. In July 2018, she was proposed as, but did not become, a board member for RTVE, at the request of the Podemos party. In recent years, she has worked as an analyst on various television programmes.

In 2011, she published the novel Las niñas perdidas (The lost girls) which earned her two awards and made her the first woman to win the Hammett Prize, given by the Semana Negra of Gijón. In 2011 she was also awarded the Award for a Novella from Barbastro for her novella Últimos días en el Puesto del Este.

Cristina Fallarás is recorded as journalist, writer and women's rights activist.