Helena Cosano is a writer, diplomat and literary translator. She was born in New Delhi (India) and spent the first years of her life there. Her childhood was then spent between Moscow and Paris, where she attended primary school and began writing short stories at an early age.

She was awarded by the French government with the first prize for Spanish literature at the Concours Général des Lycées (1994). During her university years, she studied Philosophy, Psychology, Law and Russian Philology in Paris, Vienna, Madrid and Moscow, as well as at the National School of Administration (ENA, Strasbourg).

At the end of 2004 she passed the entrance exams for the Diplomatic Career and a few months later she published her first novel Three Reunions and Nine Days of Theoretical Love, followed by a book of short stories, Butterflies. For a few years she combined her activity as a writer with that of a diplomat, with destinations such as Astana and Geneva.

Her most recent works are Cándida diplomatica (2011), Almas Brujas (Rubén Darío Award 2014) and El viento de Viena (2015), which has been awarded the Buitrago del Lozoya International Prize for Water and Wind Literature.