Aloma Rodríguez

(Zaragoza, 1983) She graduated in Hispanic Philology. She has published ‘París tres’ (2007), ‘Jóvenes y guapos’ (2010, Narrative Prize of the University of Zaragoza), ‘Solo si te mueves’ (2013) and ‘Los idiotas prefieren la montaña‘ (2016); all of them published by Xordica. Her latest book is ‘Siempre quiero ser lo que no soy‘ (Milenio, 2021), gathering a series of disturbing, sad and humorous stories that “portray the unexpected and exciting strangeness of everyday life” and that can be read as a novel. Some of her stories have been included in different magazines and anthologies. She regularly writes for Heraldo de Aragón and Letras Libres and is also a collaborator on Radio 3. She is a French translator and was Ahora’s editor and head of the culture section. She hosts the podcast ‘La amiga eres tú’, together with the writer Andrea Toribio. In 2025, he published Una inesperada ilusión (An Unexpected Illusion), a book of notes.

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