Laura Freixas (Barcelona, ​​1958) was unveiled in 1988 with a collection of stories, The Killer on the Doll, which would follow the novels Last Sunday in London (1997), Between Friends (1998) and Love or whatever (2005), the book of stories Tales to the forty (2001) and the autobiography Adolescence in Barcelona to 1970 (2007). Her latest novel, The Others Are Happier, was published in November 2011. Parallel to her narrative work, Laura Freixas has developed an intense work as a scholar and promoter of literature written by women: she has coordinated the anthologies of stories by Spanish authors contemporaries Mothers and daughters (1996) and Tales of friends (2009), and is the author of the essays Literature and women (2000) and The women's novel and its lectors (2009, Leonor de Guzmán Award). She has also been an editor, translator and literary critic, and directed the monographic issue of Revista de Occidente devoted to the intimate newspaper in Spain; he has translated the diaries of Virginia Woolf and André Gide, as well as the letters of Madame de Sévigné; He regularly collaborates in different media and is a columnist for the newspaper La Vanguardia. She gives courses and conferences in Spanish and foreign institutions, and has been guest professor in several universities in the United States.