Salome Ortega

Who is Salome Ortega?

Salomé Ortega Martínez was born in the province of Granada, Spain, in Campo Camara. She and her family moved to Madrid in 1965. Despite her short time living in Granada, the summers she spent there left indelible memories that she recounts in her third book, La Sabia Insinuacion de las Cosas and her latest book Perdi las Estrellas published by Sial.

She has experience as a journalist for various publications and as a presenter on the radio. Her first published works were poems, like the famous Los Siete Velos published in 1987 and which Lauro Olmo said "... these poems are a breeze as stars, a breeze on the verge of shaking." Four years later she published Granada Abriendose title that her friend Luis Rosales gave her. Lauro Olmo also said "We are entering into an intimate lyricism ... it's like the verse in a prose expands without limits, a dutiful prose andalusia steady breath poemático ...".

In her third book, published in 1999 La Sabia Insinuacion de las Cosas Landero Louis, among other things, said " ... a veritable feast for the senses, Salome knows how to look at things from it rioja rioja untransferable unique ...