Alicia Giménez Bartlett
Alicia Giménez Bartlett (born 10 June 1951 in Almansa, Albacete, Spain is a Spanish writer particularly known for her series of detective novels protagonized by Petra Delicado.Biography
Her first novel, Exit was published in 1984. In 1997, she published Una habitación ajena concerning the tensions between the lesbian writer Virginia Woolf and her servant Nelly, and this won her the Premio Femenino Singular.
The Petra Delicado novels have been published in various languages and are very popular in Germany and Italy. In 1999 Petra Delicado appeared as the protagonist of a television series. In 2011 Bartlett won the Premio Nadal for Donde nadie te encuentre.
She has lived in Barcelona since 1975.
