Maribel MEDINA
“Maribel Medina is courageous in her subjects, direct and effective in the fiction that unmasks the lies”, Carlos Zanón.
(1969, Pamplona). Maribel Medina was born in Pamplona and, although her love of travel led her to live in India, she has called the Baztán Valley (Navarre) home for the past 25 years. As a teenager, she was orphaned and had to give up her dream of becoming an astrophysicist, instead studying Geography and History at university. Later, she worked as a freelance reader for a national publishing house. In 2014, she published Sangre de barro (Maeva), a crime novel about doping in sport that was a hit with the press and readers alike. The next book in the Connors series, Sangre intocable, soon followed. The
theme continues: international plots set against a backdrop of real-life social commentary. In 2019, the final book in the Sangre trilogy, Sangre entre la hierba, was published. She changed genre and published the illustrated short story El Niño-Hoja.
She has served on the judging panels for several competitions, such as Tenerife Noir, the 2024 Librería Cultural Prize and the prestigious María Moliner Prize. In January, a new novel entitled Hambre was published by Contraluz.
Since 2019, she has chaired and directed the “Mi Pueblo Lee association”, a national rural network of literary festivals which was awarded the National Prize for the Promotion of Reading in 2024.
On the wall of his office is written: “A daring life or nothing”.
