EDEBÉ Young Adult Literature Award 2007: Cordelunaby Elia Barceló

He studied Anglo-Germanic Philology and Hispanic Philology in Spain and received a doctorate in Hispanic Literature in Austria. Since 1981 she has lived in Innsbruck, where she is a professor of Hispanic literature, stylistics and creative literature at the Faculty of Letters of the Leopold-Franzens-Universatat.

He has published novels, essays and about forty stories in Spanish and foreign anthologies and magazines. Some of his work has been translated into French, Italian, German, Catalan, English, Greek, Hungarian, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Chinese and Esperanto.

She has been nominated and received several awards:
the Ignotus Award for fantastic stories from the Spanish Association of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1991), as well as having been nominated three more times, the International Award for short science fiction novels from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (1994), the Edebé Award for Young Adult Literature (1997), three times a runner-up award in the Paradores de España International Short Story Award and the Pou de la Neu literary-gastronomic award (2005).

He regularly participates in Gijón's Black Week with literary workshops. Several academic articles, two bachelor's theses (Austria and France) and part of a doctoral thesis (United States) have been written about his work.

Under the name Elia Eisterer-Barceló she dedicates herself to literary research, gives lectures, teaches teacher training courses, participates in conferences in her specialty and publishes reviews and academic articles. Her field of research is fantasy, science fiction and horror literature, as well as 20th century Argentine and Cuban narrative, and crime novels.