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  Categoría:Mujeres Rocío Castrillo ( Almonte, Huelva, 1963) is a Spanish journalist and writer .

Biography[change | change source]

Degree in Information Sciences (branch of journalism) from the Complutense University of Madrid (class of 1982-87). In 1997 he completed a master's degree in Community Law and Common Policies of the European Union at the Diplomatic School . [1] Rocío Castrillo began her professional career at the Huelva Información newspaper and worked as a reporter for various national media outlets: ABC, El Mundo, Época, Tribuna de Actualidad y Cambio 16 and RTVE, among others. [2] It has more than 200 covers published in the Spanish press and several of its articles appear in newspapers and periodicals internationally, [1] also in some international organizations for the defense of freedoms and human rights such as Equipo Nizkor . [3] Among them, "Be careful, the Empire is spying on us", about the North American espionage network ECHELON or "The Sahara is preparing for war", which caused Moroccan censorship and the withdrawal of number 1528 of the Cambio 16 magazine in Morocco . [3] His extensive career has also led him to collaborate in other publications such as the newspaper Ya, the Spanish news agency Servimedia, the digital magazine ACtitud50 and in the communication department of Unicef Spain. [2] His first novel was A Mansion in Prague, (2013, Discoverbooks). The second novel, Ellas y El Sexo (2014, Sial Pigmalión), [4] a work that was awarded at the 73rd edition of the Madrid Book Fair with the 2014 Escriduende Award for the author with the most media coverage. [5] In 2016, he published his third novel, At the End of the Earth, on Amazon . [6] His fourth work, 151 slashes (Pábilo Editorial, 2019) is a non-fiction novel about Almonte's double crime, inspired by the classic In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote. [7] A work that raised a strong controversy before being published, due to the threats of rape and death that the author received after her intervention on a television program to talk about the book and the case. It took him a year to write this book. [2]


Awards[change | change source]

  • Prize for Non-Violence Against Women 2001, Press modality, awarded by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, to a series of three reports published on the cover of Cambio 16 and entitled Sexist Judges, In Spain they send eggs and Confessions of a raped woman . [8]
  • Escriduende Award 2014 to the most media author, granted by the Editorial Group Sial Pigmalion at 73. ª Edition of the Madrid Book Fair for her novel Ellas y el sexo . [3]

References[change | change source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Juan Emilio Ballesteros (23 de septiembre de 2020). FAPE y APM condenan las amenazas a la periodista Rocío Castrillo Revista Cambio 16. Consultado el 28 de febrero de 2022.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 R.R.R. (21 de abril de 2019). “Escribir las 500 páginas me llevó un año de mucho trabajar y poco dormir” Periódico Huelva Información. Consultado el 28 de febrero de 2022.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 ¡Ojo!, el Imperio nos espía Equipo Nizkor. Consultado el 28 de febrero de 2022.
  4. A. Díaz (19 de marzo de 2015). Rocío Castrillo: «La novela cuenta las aventuras de alcoba de cuatro mujeres» Periódico La Tribuna de Albacete. Consultado el 28 de febrero de 2022.
  5. Fermín Cabanillas (16 de marzo de 2019). '151 cuchilladas', el análisis del crimen de Almonte y su absoluta impunidad Diario La Vanguardia. Consultado el 28 de febrero de 2022.
  6. Rita Piedrafita (9 de mayo de 2017). En el fin de la tierra de Rocío Castrillo. Reseña Ronda Huesca. Consultado el 28 de febrero de 2022.
  7. Una novela sobre el doble crimen de Almonte llega a las librerías de toda España Agencia EFE. Consultado el 28 de febrero de 2022.
  8. "Resolución de 14 de noviembre de 2001, del Instituto de la Mujer, por la que se conceden los Premios a la No Violencia contra las Mujeresª dirigidos a agencias de publicidad, prensa, radio y televisión en su tercera edición" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). 9 de enero de 2002. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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