sentences:  She wrote her doctoral thesis in the Department of Philology at the Universidad Complutense and is a member of the editorial team of the on-line magazine of the Department, "Espéculo".She began her literary career in 1996 with the novel "El refugio" (The Refuge), for which she received the Premio de Novela Corta Joven y Brillante (1996).Two years later, in 1998, she won the Premio Ateneo of Seville for the novel "Que veinte años no es nada" (Twenty Years is Nothing), in which she relates the unchanging passion that Luisa feels for a famous writer, Cósimo Herrera, twenty years her elder.