Bárbara Blasco

Bárbara Blasco (Valencia, 1972) has worked as a shop assistant, telephone operator, waiter, magician's assistant, cabaret dancer, petrol station staff, supporting actor and selling encyclopaedias, before she completed her studies in journalism. She then studied cinematography at the Catalonia Centre of Cinematographic Studies, and scriptwriting for cinema at the School of Cinema in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. She wrote the novels Luck (2013) and The Memory of Wire (2018), and currently makes regular contributions to the newspaper Valencia Plaza and teaches at the Fuentetaja Creative Writing Workshops. What The Symptoms Say is an original and frank piece of writing, an excellent portrait of a woman in crisis.