The Wasp Season
Let go from her job at the magazine when there are cutbacks, Nuria has to face up to some of her childhood obsessions. A mysterious telephone call starts everything unravelling, her real father, from whom she and her brother Raúl have heard nothing in years, has reappeared and is in intensive care. Her brilliant childhood with him, the conflicts with their mother, her fear of wasps – which she manages by compulsively scribbling images of them – and suddenly her life is overwhelmed with danger and uncertainty. Finally she will discover her father's hidden past, and the reasons he abandoned them, and perhaps embrace a second chance for the many things she has to come to terms with, as she faces the last wasps' nests in the garden.
This project has been funded with support from the Creative Europe Programme of the European Commission.
Elisa Ferrer
Elisa Ferrer, born in L'Alcúdia de Crespins (Valencia) in 1983, has a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Valencia, a diploma in Film and Television Screenplay from the School of Madrid and graduated in Creative Writing in Spanish from The University of Iowa, where he was a member of the magazine's editorial team Literary Iowa.
She has worked as a television screenwriter and as a feature film script analyst for the RTVE Fiction department and has published articles and poems in several literary magazines.
"The Wasp Season" is her debut novel. It received the Spanish Critics Award and has been nominated for the European Prize for Literature 2020.
