Rebeca_Quintáns
Rebeca Quintáns
Spanish journalist, research writer and teacher
Rebeca Quintáns López (Arzúa, A Coruña, 1964) is a Spanish journalist, research writer and teacher.[1]
Rebeca Quintáns | |
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| Native name | Rebeca Quintáns López |
| Born | 1964 (age 59–60) Arzúa, Spain |
| Pen name | Patricia Sverlo |
| Occupation | Journalist, research writer and teacher |
| Language | Spanish, Galician |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Education | Journalism |
| Alma mater | Complutense University of Madrid |
| Genre | Non-Fiction, biography, research |
| Subject | Juan Carlos I of Spain |
| Notable works | Un rey golpe a golpe (2000) Juan Carlos I: la biografía sin silencios (2016) |
Rebeca Quintáns graduated in Spanish Philology by the University of Santiago de Compostela. She got a doctorate in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid with a thesis about the speech of Juan Carlos I.[2]
Her first book, Un Rey golpe a golpe (A King coup by coup), was released by the publisher Ardi Beltza and signed under the pseudonym of Patricia Sverlo for security reasons.[3] It was the sequel of her doctoral thesis, which in words of the author: "there was so much contrast between the truth of the figure of Juan Carlos and the image created in the media during the Transition that I was looking forward to tell all that".[2]
As a journalist she has written in various media both conventional (Interviú, Tiempo, El Semanal or El Correo Gallego among others) and alternative (Ardi Beltza, Kale Gorria, El Otro País, No a la Guerra or Diagonal). She is also a Secondary school teacher and has worked as an associate professor in the Faculty of Information Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid.[4]
In 2016 she published Juan Carlos I: la biografía sin silencios (Juan Carlos I: the biography without silences), an updated extension of the trajectory of the king emeritus where she reviews different aspects of his life not treated by conventional media.[5][6]
- Rebeca Quintans | Periodista y escritora. La Nueva España. 22 July 2016. (in Spanish)
- Rebeca Quintans: "El 23-F consiguió su objetivo, el fracaso es relativo". Público. 4 December 2016. (in Spanish)
- "Para hablar del libro, salíamos de la redacción y le quitábamos la batería a los teléfonos móviles". Público. 14 July 2014. (in Spanish)
- Rebeca Quintans: “El rey emérito fue un colaborador necesario del 23 F”. Revista R@mbla. 19 June 2016. (in Spanish)
- ‘Juan Carlos I, la biografía sin silencios’. InfoLibre. 1 May 2016. (in Spanish)
- "No hay libertad de expresión en España para informar sobre la monarquía". Eldiario.es. 4 November 2016. (in Spanish)
- Sverlo, Patricia (2000). Un Rey golpe a golpe. Biografía no autorizada de Juan Carlos de Borbón (in Spanish). Ardi Beltza. ISBN 978-84-95659-10-1.
- Sánchez Díaz, Andrés; Quintáns, Rebeca (2000). Gran Hermano : el precio de la dignidad (in Spanish). Arakatzen. ISBN 978-84-931197-5-1.
- Quintáns, Rebeca (2016). Juan Carlos I: la biografía sin silencios (in Spanish). Akal. ISBN 978-84-460-4279-2.