Corín Tellado
| Corín Tellado | |
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Corín Tellado in 2008
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| Born | María del Socorro Tellado López April 25, 1927 El Franco, Asturias, Spain |
| Died | April 11, 2009 (aged 81) Gijón, Asturias, Spain |
| Pen name | Corín Tellado, Ada Miller Leswy, Ada Miller |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Period | 1945–2009 |
| Genre | romance novel |
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María del Socorro Tellado López (April 25, 1927, El Franco, Asturias – April 11, 2009), known as Corín Tellado, was a prolific Spanish writer of romantic novels and photonovels that were best-sellers in several Spanish-language countries. She published more than 5,000 titles and sold more than 400-million books which have been translated into several languages. She was listed in the 1994 Guinness World Records as having sold the most books written in Spanish, and earlier in 1962 UNESCO declared her the most read Spanish writer after Miguel de Cervantes.
Her novels were different from other contemporary Western European romantic writers' works because she usually set them in the present and didn't use eroticism, due to the Spanish regime's strict censorship. Her style was direct and her characters were simply presented. These novels have inspired several telenovelas.
María del Socorro Tellado López was the only girl of five siblings. Her mother was a housewife and her father was a naval mechanic in the Merchant Navy.
In 1939, after the Spanish Civil War, her father was promoted to First Officer and the whole family moved to Cádiz. She studied in a school run by nuns and read a lot.
Her father died in 1945 and the family started to have economic problems; she sold her first novel, Atrevida apuesta, to the publishing house, Editorial Bruguera in 1946 for 3,000 pesetas. This publishing house contracted her to write one short novel every week. She would later have problems with Editorial Bruguera, because they republished some of her novels with a different title.
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