Olga Merino

Olga Merino has lived in London and Moscow, where she worked as a correspondent for the Spanish newspaper El Periódico de Cataluña. In 2006 she won the literary prize NH Mario Vargas Llosa for the best single short-story for the tale 'Las normas son las normas' ('Rules are Rules'), which recreates an impossible love story between a British soldier, disabled during the Crimean War, and a Welsh nurse, based upon the historic personality of Betsy Cadwaladyr.