Laura Freixas (Barcelona, 1958) studied at the French Lyceum in her city. She graduated in Law in 1980, but she has always dedicated herself to writing. She became known in 1988 with a collection of stories, followed by several novels, an autobiography and four volumes, to date, of her diary. Alongside her narrative work, Laura Freixas has been an editor, literary critic, and translator, and has developed an intense activity as a scholar and promoter of literature written by women.
She has been a teacher, lecturer, or guest writer at numerous Spanish and foreign universities, especially in the United States. She is a columnist and literary critic for different newspapers. She was one of the founders and the first chair (from 2009 to 2017) of an association for gender equality in culture.
Increasingly interested in autobiography in all its forms, Laura Freixas published in 2019 what is her most widely read and acclaimed book, “It wasn’t goint go happen to me”, which she defines as an “autobiography written like a novel”. In it, she recalls and tries to understand how and why she had become, in her forties, the sort of person -a “homemaker”- that she had never ever intended to be. After living in France as a student and in the United Kingdom as a Spanish-language assistant at the Universities of Bradford and Southampton, she has lived in Madrid since 1991.