Inés Marful


Inés Marful, also known as Inés Marful Amor, is a Spanish scholar, writer, and visual artist from Asturias, known for her scholarly work about Federico García Lorca. Her novel Cuatro Cuentos de Amor y El Intocable Absurdo won the 2008 Casino Mieres Novel Award.

Biography

Marful was born in 1961 in Mieres, Spain. She holds a doctorate in Spanish literature from the University of Oviedo, and has worked as a professor at the University of Oviedo and University of Valladolid. After 1999, Marful worked as a political counselor in the government of Spain and as a photojournalist and columnist.

Writing

Marful has written scholarly analyses of the works of Federico García Lorca, as well as several novels. Her work includes a critical essay titled "Passion and Death in Lorquian Drama", published in the 1987 collection A Federico García Lorca. She is the author of Lorca y sus dobles, an essay described by Manuel Alvar in Blanco y Negro as "the definitive work on the poet from Granada".
Her novels include Te sucederá lo que al río en primavera, published in 1998 and described as a "misiva de una mujer a su madre fallecida" by Ramón Massó Ortega in Historia Sinóptica de la Literatura Española. She also wrote Instrucciones para olvidar, published in 2008 and described as "una magnífica novela que huele a agua de lluvia y de mar" by María Castrejón in Que Me Estoy Muriendo De Agua: Guía de narrativa lésbica española.
Her 2008 novel Cuatro Cuentos de Amor y El Intocable Absurdo won the 2008 Casino Mieres Novel Award. She is the third woman to win the prize since the awards were founded in 1980.

Visual art

Marful has worked with the Swiss photographer Su Alonso to create artwork as "Alonso y Marful." As of 2022, she is the director of Herrería de la Luna, a center for art and poetry, at the Free University of Boimouro.

Selected publications

Literary theory

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Novels