The adaptation for TV of the bestseller “El tiempo entre costuras” (The Seamstress)
09/09/2013Last Friday, the 6th of September, television networks Antena 3 and Boomerang TV presented the pilot episode of the series El tiempo entre costuras (The Seamstress), during a party for the Vitoria-Gasteiz Television Festival (FesTVal). The adaptation for television of the novel written by María Dueñas and translated into more than 30 languages, is the much anticipated Autumn Prime Time launch for Spanish television. From Bestseller to TV success << El tiempo entre costuras (The Seamstress)>> is going to have the same success as the book has. The story of Sira is exciting and it has everything one could wish for entertainment: romance, adventure, passion, betrayal, unforgettable moments from our History, danger… Through the life of the protagonist, we don’t only pass through part of Spanish History but also all of the feelings and emotions that a human being can go through. You are magically struck with empathy for Sira. <>, commented Adriana Ugarte. Newspaper ABC 09/07/2013 Editorial Planeta published a special edition for the series on its Booket label (paperback). We can get a glimpse, on the cover, of Sira Quiroga, played by the actress Adriana Ugarte.
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La Templanza by María Dueñas, bestseller book in Sant Jordi 2015 in Barcelona
24/04/2015Yesterday Barcelona celebrated it's well known Sant Jordi. The day of books and roses. La Templanza by María Dueñas was the number one bestseller with long queues of people waiting to get the book signed by the author. La Templanza, published in March by Planeta, was number one on the lists in Spain a few days after publication. Three weeks later, it is still number one. After the international success of her first novel El tiempo entre costuras (translated into 35 languages) and her second book, Misión olvido, Maria Dueñas's La Templanza, pitched as a Spanish Gone with the Wind set in Mexico City, Havana, and Spain's Jerez de la Frontera, with the outbreak of the American civil war and a chance game of billiards providing the twin catalysts for a war of the sexes between a financially ruined Mexican silver baron and a wily, married Andalusian heiress over title to the eponymous vineyard estate of the novel, who too soon discover that sherry wine may not be their only passion.
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Dueñas, María
María Dueñas (Puertollano, Ciudad Real, 1964) es doctora en Filología Inglesa. Tras dos décadas dedicadaa la vida académica, irrumpe en el mundo de la literatura en 2009 con El tiempo entre costuras, la novela que se convirtió en un fenómeno editorial y cuya adaptación televisiva de la mano de Antena 3 logró numerosos galardones y un espectacular éxito de audiencia. Sus obras posteriores, Misión Olvido (2012), La Templanza (2015) y Las hijas del Capitán (2018), continuaron cautivando por igual a lectores y a la crítica. Traducida a más de treinta y cinco lenguas y con millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo, María Dueñas se ha convertido en una de las autoras más estimadas tanto en nuestro país como en América Latina. Sira (2021) es su quinta novela.
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María Dueñas takes us, in her new novel La Templanza, to the young Mexican republic, the colonial Havana and the Jerez of the second half of the nineteenth-century.
16/03/2015After being translated into more than thirty-five languages and sold over 5,000,000 copies worldwide with her previous novels, El tiempo entre costuras and Misión Olvido, Maria Dueñas returns with La Templanza, a novel that speaks of glories and defeats, of silver mines, family intrigues, vineyards, cellars and splendid cities whose grandeur faded in time. With a first print-run of 500,000 copies in Spanish language, La Templanza will be the main title by Editorial Planeta this spring. Watch the booktrailer. Photo: María Dueñas in the González Byass cellars.
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Javier Sierra and María Dueñas were two of the best selling authors in 2013 in Spain
19/02/2014We're happy to see two of our titles in the best seller lists of 2013 published by Nielsen Bookscan. Javier Sierra, with his latest novel El maestro del Prado (The Master of El Prado), appears, in the sixth position, as the first Spanish author in the list, with almost 150.000 copies sold of this last book. María Dueñas is in the tenth position with Misión Olvido (Mission Oblivion), that sold almost 120.000 copies. Rights to El maestro del Prado (an intriguing mixture of fiction, essay and biography in which a mysterious master explains the works of the museum to the author) have been sold to the United States, Brazil, Russia, Poland and Romania, in translations that are in the works and will see the light of day at the end of this year. Misión Olvido blends love, intrigue and appealing characters through the story of Blanca Perea, a teacher that will come to surprising conclusions while working on a project that was thought to be boring and unsubstantial. The book has repeated the astounding success of El tiempo entre costuras (The Seamstress) and has been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Serbian, Swedish, Norwegian and Catalan.
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Dueñas and Palma nominated for the IMPAC Dublin
14/11/2012In the 12th of November the list of nominated novels was presented for the; “Internacional IMPAC Dublín Literary Award, 2013”. The list, containing 154 titles sellected by public libaries from 120 cities in 44 countries and 19 languages, will compete for one of the most international literary awards. Among the selected include; “El tiempo entre costuras” (The Seamstress/ The Time Between) by María Dueñas and “El mapa del tiempo” (The map of Time) by Félix J. Palma The selected titles are considered novels of high literary quality. The list of finalists (maximum 10 titles) will be made public in April 2013 and the winner, will be selected by an international group of five judges. We are anxiously awaiting April to learn the results of this selection. In the meantime we congratulate both in-house authors for this grand acknowledgement.
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María Dueñas in Taiwan
12/09/2012Meanwhile in Spain“Mission Olvido” (the new novel by María Dueñas) has begun to climb the lists as one of the bestsellers, this author has arrived to the Far East with a firm step and she has placed “El Tiempo Entre Costuras” (The Seamstress) in the lists of favorites in both China and Taiwan. A few months ago this was published in China with astounding success, selling more than a hundred thousand copies in the 1st month. While inTaiwan the title published in September by the same publishing house (Thinkingdom Media) has already reached the bestseller lists. Links: Enlaces: Trailer "El tiempo entre costuras", Ed. Thinkingdom Media. Special promo by Eslite (bookstore).
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