Martín Gaite, Carmen
Martín Gaite, Carmen (1925– ),Spanish writer highly regarded for her novels and short stories. She has also experimented with other literary genres, and her work in the field of children's literature is exemplified by fairy tales such as ‘El castillo de las tres murallas’ (‘The Castle of the Three Walls’, 1981) and ‘El pastel del diablo’ (‘The Fiend's Cake’, 1992). In addition, she is the author of La reina de las nieves (The Snow Queen, 1994), a novel based on Hans Christian Andersen's ‘The Snow Queen’. Of all her fairy stories, the most successful has been Caperucita Roja en Manhattan (Little Red Riding Hood in Manhattan, 1990), a short novel in which she rewrites the story of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ with feminist overtones.
Carolina Fernandez
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