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Elisa Vázquez de Gey
Born in Lugo in 1955, Elisa Vázquez de Gey holds a degree in French Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela, and is the author of several books of poetry. Meeting the niece of the Spanish maharani of Kapurthala, Anita Delgado, and investigating her amazing story changed her life and her literary career. Stemming from that encounter, she published the biography La princesa de Kapurthala (Planeta, 2008) and the novel El sueño de la Maharaní (Grialbo, 2007). In 2015, she published the novel Una casa en Amargura (Ediciones B) and in 2025 she published a fictionalized biography of Ada Falcón, an Argentine tango dancer and singer, titled El alma del tango (Almuzara, 2025). Elisa Vázquez de Gey lives in Lugo and divides her time between lecturing and writing.
