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Julia Navarro is a Madrid-based journalist and political analyst for Agencia OTR/Europa Press, and a correspondent for other prominent Spanish radio and television networks and print media. Her first novel, The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud, was an international bestseller.

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PERSONAL:

Born 1953, in Madrid, Spain; married; children: a son.

CAREER:

Journalist and writer. Agencia OTR/Europa Press, political analyst; also correspondent for Spanish radio and television networks and print media.

WRITINGS:

NONFICTION

Tristeza: Poemas, G. del Toro (Madrid, Spain), 1973.

PSOE: El Desafío Socialista, Maisal (Madrid, Spain), 1977.

Nosotros, La Transición, Temas de Hoy (Madrid, Spain), 1995.

Entre Felipe y Aznar, 1982-1996, Ediciones Temas de Hoy (Madrid, Spain), 1996.

(With Raimundo Castro) La Izquierda Que Viene, Espasa-Calpe (Madrid, Spain), 1998.

Señora Presidenta, Plaza & Janes Editores (Barcelona, Spain), 1999.

NOVELS

La Hermandad de la sábana Santa, Plaza & Janes (Barcelona, Spain), 2004, translated by Andrew Hurley as The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud, Bantam Books (New York, NY), 2007.

La Biblia de Barro, Plaza & Janes (Madrid, Spain), 2005, translated as The Bible of Clay, Bantam Books (New York, NY), 2008.

Author of a weekly column for Tiempo magazine.

ADAPTATIONS:

The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud is being adapted for film.

SIDELIGHTS:

Julia Navarro is a Spanish journalist whose early books were nonfiction books primarily focusing on politics until she wrote her first novel, The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud. The novel revolves around the famous Shroud of Turin, which supposedly is the death shroud of Jesus Christ and displays an outlined image of Jesus. In the novel, a fire at the Turin cathedral reveals that a secret group claiming to have members who are descendents of Jesus are out to recover the shroud. The group's fanaticism is evidenced by the fact that those who are captured following the fire have had their tongues cut out so they cannot reveal anything about the group. The novel also features members of the Knights Templar, who believe they are the true guardians of the shroud, as they set out to thwart the secret group's plans, which also in

Spanish novelist and journalist

Julia Navarro (Born Madrid, 1953) is a Spanish novelist and journalist. She is the daughter of Spanish journalist, Felipe Navarro "Yale". After writing books on current affairs and politics, she published her first novel The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud, which was on best-seller lists, both in Spain and abroad.

Career

Navarro has been a journalist since 1983. She has contributed to Spanish media outlets Cadena SER, Cadena Cope, Telecinco, Canal Sur, and OTR Agency/Europa Press. She began her professional career during Spain’s transition to democracy. She reported on the journalistic era that she lived through, writing ongoing analysis on the country’s social evolution toward a new constitution in 1978. In 2010-2011, she participated in political roundtable discussions on the Telemadrid program Madrid opina. Currently, she is a political analyst for OTR Agency/Europa Press and a frequent editorial writer on political issues for Escaño Cero1.

Navarro’s novels have been translated into more than thirty languages.

Awards and honours

She has been awarded the Premio Qué Leer for best Spanish novel, VIII premio de los Lectores de Crisol, Premio Ciudad de Cartagena, Premio Pluma de Plata de Bilbao, Premio Protagonistas de Literatura and the Premio Más que Música de los Libros.

Selected works

Novels

• La Hermandad de la Sábana Santa (2004; tr:The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud)
• La Biblia de barro (2005; tr: The Bible of Clay)
• La sangre de los inocentes (2007; tr: The Blood of the Innocent)
• Dime quién soy (2010; tr: Tell Me Who I Am)
• Dispara, yo ya estoy muerto (2013; Tr: Shoot, I’m Already Dead)
• Historia de un canalla (2016; Tr: A Scoundrel's Story, or Story of a Sociopath)
• Tu no matarás (2018)
• De ninguna parte (2021; Tr: Out of nowhere)

Non-fiction

• 1982-1996, entre Felipe y Aznar (tr: 1982-1996, Between Felipe and Aznar)
• Nosotros, la transición (tr: We, The

Julia Navarro

Julia Navarro is a Madrid-based journalist who is currently a political analyst for Agencia OTR/Europa Press and a correspondent for other prominent Spanish radio and television networks and print media, including a weekly column for Tiempo magazine.

Julia Navarro is also the author of the international bestseller, The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud.

Follow Juia at http://julianavarro.es/en/

This biography was last updated on 03/25/2008.

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