María Sánchez

María Sánchez is a Spanish writer, veterinarian and the author of Cuaderno de campo (Field Notebook), Almáciga: Un vivero de palabras de nuestro medio rural (Seedbed), and Tierra de mujeres: Una mirada íntima y familiar al mundo rural (Land of Women), a bestseller in Spain, with translations into French and German. Her poetry and prose have been translated into English, French, Portuguese, English, Slovakian, German, Romanian and Polish. She is a regular contributor to publications on literature, feminism, and rural culture.

Among other prizes, she has been awarded the Orgullo Rural prize by the Board of Trustees of the Rural Studies Foundation «for being a bridge for the dissemination of the rural world», the National Youth Culture Prize by the Spanish Youth Institute (INJUVE) for having contributed with her poetry «to making visible, in an exemplary and innovative way, the need to maintain life in the countryside»,  FADEMUR 2019 award from the Federación de Asociaciones de Mujeres Rurales (FADEMUR) for her fight for rural women, Córdoba en Igualdad 2020 in the Art and Culture category from the Diputación de Córdoba, and Artes y Letras 2021 award from the Fundación Princesa de Girona for her work as a poet, writer and activist in defence of rural culture, and especially the forgotten role of women in the countryside.

Cuaderno de campo (La Bella Varsovia, 2017) is her first collection of poems. Tierra de mujeres, is her first essay, a text on women and the rural environment (Seix Barral, 2019), translated into French (Rivages, 2020), German (Blessing Verlag, 2021) an English (spring 2022, University Trinity Press). Almáciga (Geoplaneta, 2020) is a small nursery of words from the rural environment in the different languages of our territory that continues to live and grow in virtual format.