Lourdes Ortiz

Oritz was educated in a convent school where she studied philosophy and literature until the age of sixteen. She went on to study geography and history in the Complutense University of Madrid.

Ortiz taught art history at the Royal School of Dramatic Art of Madrid, where she was the director from 1991 to 1993.[2] She has collaborated with different newspapers and magazines including El País, El Mundo, and Diario 16, writing opinion-based columns on social and political issues. In 1999, she began working on a television show called "Así es la Vida", which translates to "This is How Life Is", that accompanied the morning news on the network Telecinco.[1] Despite her involvement in the news industry, Ortiz has stated that she has a greater passion for writing novels rather than newspaper articles. She believes that novels exhibit dimensions of her own time and finds them more challenging to write.[3]

At nineteen years old, she married a poet named Jesus Munarriz, with whom she had a son, and divorced in 1968. She then became partners with philosopher Fernando Savater, and later went on to having relations with actor and writer Daniel Sarasola in the eighties.

Her other novels include Camas (1989), Antes de la batalla (1992), La fuente de la vida (1995), Fatima de los naufragios (1998), La liberated (1998), and Una mirada insólita sobre Pablo y Nerón (1999). In the field of drama, Lourdes Ortiz has published Las murals de Jericó (1980), Penteo (1983), and Fedra (1984). Her novel La fuente de la vida made her the finalist of the Planet Prize. Ortiz has also worked with several publications, has translated books from French and has maintained an active involvement in politics.[1]