Cristina Sánchez-Andrade  Cristina Sánchez-Andrade (born 5 April 1968) is a Spanish writer and translator of partial English descent. In 2004 she won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for her work "Ya no pisa la tierra tu rey" ("Your King No Longer Treads the Earth"). Her 2014 novel "Las Inviernas" was a finalist for the Premio Herralde, and in translation (by Samuel Ritter as "The Winterlings") won two English PEN awards. Cristina Sánchez-Andrade was born in Santiago de Compostela on 5 April 1968, the daughter of a Galician father and an English mother. She has a licentiate in information sciences from the Complutense University, one in law from the National University of Distance Education, and a master's degree in community law from the Autonomous University of Madrid, the city where she resides. She divides her time between writing and English–Spanish translation, as well as teaching narrative workshops, and her own work has been translated into several languages. She has been a guest speaker at several international universities and literary festivals. Sánchez-Andrade's stories have earned several literary awards, and in 1999 she published "Las lagartijas huelen a hierba", a novel about the search for identity that was well-received for its narrative originality and structure. "Bueyes y rosas dormían" (2001), her second novel, is set in an indefinite time, in an oppressive, fictional, and archetypal place called Pueblo. With "Ya no pisa la tierra tu rey", she won the 2004 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, awarded by the Guadalajara International Book Fair. The novel, with a collective protagonist – a congregation of nuns – reveals a recurring theme: criticism of collective manifestations that may lead people to think not as individuals but as a mass, and to make decisions not out of reflection and personal evaluation, but because of that weakness that comes from the need to belong to the flock and shelter in it. Her 2007 novel "Coco" tells the story of French designer Coco Chanel, and she returned to this format to narrate the life of Christina of Norway, a 13th-century medieval princess who traveled to Spain to marry an infant brother of King Alfonso X. This historical novel was published in 2010 with the title ", and was a finalist for the Spartacus Historical Novel Award in 2011.