Spanish · b. 1978
Eva Baltasar writes in Catalan about women who refuse conventional femininity. Her novel "Boulder" follows a cook on Antarctic research vessels who prefers the company of ice to human warmth, until an unexpected pregnancy disrupts her solitude. Baltasar's prose—terse, physical, unsentimental—matches her protagonists' resistance to emotional display. The Spanish author has earned recognition for fiction that treats female desire and autonomy with bracing directness.