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Irene Zoe Alameda (Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish writer, filmmaker, composer. Author of 3 books, 5 short-films, over 20 short-stories and 2 music albums. Obtained national fame in Spain in 2004 after the publication of her first novel "Suenos Itinerantes" (Seix Barral). And again in 2013 when she published her latest novel "WA. Ultimos Dias de Warla Alkman" (Edhasa), and she was at the center of a media controversy while writing under the nickname Amy Martin for Foundation IDEAS. She is the ex-wife of Carlos Mulas Granados.〔http://www.abc.es/espana/20140116/abci-martin-caja-201401152140.html〕 == Biography == A writer and filmmaker, she holds a PhD in literature from Columbia University. She previously studied Hispanic philology at Complutense University of Madrid and spent four semesters as Erasmus at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, where she was later hired as a lecturer of Spanish. Some former work-colleges of hers dispute that she has been working in Germany, and highlight the fact that she can not understand basic German 〔http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2013/01/29/espana/1359456471.html〕 ''El País'' op-ed contributor,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Irene Zoe Alameda: 'Artículos escritos por Irene Zoe Alameda' )〕 she has worked as a professor at Suffolk University, the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and at the Spanish National Research Council. She has worked as a scriptwriter, assistant director, producer, composer and art director in several short films. She has written, directed, produced and composed the original soundtrack for all her short films: ''Tarde de homenaje'' (USA 2002), ''Buen Viaje'' (Spain 2008), ''Uniformadas'' (Spain 2010) and ''Jaisalmer'' (India 2012). The documentary ''Jaisalmer'' (India 2012) is her latest cinematographic work. Her short film ''Buen Viaje'' has received several awards and has been shown in several film festivals both in Spain and around the world, such as the Malaga Film Festival, the Iberian Film Festival of Badajoz, the Torrelavega Film Festival, Cinesul do Brasil, Festroia-Portugal, San Diego Latino Film Festival, the Bogota Film Festival and the Rochester Film Festival. Her short ''Uniformed'' (Uniformadas) has received some international awards, such as Best Short Film at the Film Femmes Méditerranée (France, 2012), Ebensee (Austria, 2012), Milano (Italy, 2011), Festival de Cine de Alicante (Spain 2011), Malescorto (Italy, 2011), Laguardia Film Festival (Spain, 2011), Inquietarte (Spain, 2011), Festival del Mar (Spain, 2011), FICII11 (Chile, 2011), and Pecca de Oro (Spain, 2011), and her script was awarded at the Mediterranean Short Film Festival (Morocco, 2011) and Laguardia (Spain, 2011). It was also candidate to Best Short Film at the Spanish Film Academy’s Goya Awards (2010). In addition to her cinematographic career, she has published several short stories and four books: the novels ''Sueños Itinerantes'' (Seix Barral, 2004), ''WA. Últimos días de Warla Alkman''〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title='WA. Últimos días de Warla Alkman' )〕 (Edhasa, 2013), and the essay books ''The Neopicaresque Novel in the Post-War Era'' (Michigan University Press, 2004) and ''Artista y Criminal''〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title='Artista y Criminal' )〕 (Castalia, 2011). Her novel ''Itinerant Dreams'' was critically acclaimed and the author was said to show “portentous registries, incommensurate ambition, unstoppable verbal potential and an invisible style capable of depicting the mental unhinging of our time” (Francisco Solano, EL PAÍS). Also her multimedia novel ''Warla Alkman'' has been critically acclaimed: "Reaching the end of Warla (and her brother) is worth it. The last pages are excellent and they justify the search of the hero, that doomed character dancing on the border of an abyss" (José de María Romero Barea). She has also translated into Spanish the book of poems ''Escena de amor en limusina y compañía'' (New Model Books, 2002), and the novels ''La fiera indomable'' (Martínez Roca, 2007) and ''Obras Selectas de T.S. Spivet'' (Seix Barral, 2010). She was the director of Instituto Cervantes in Stockholm, Sweden, for 12 months (2009–2010).〔http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2013/01/29/espana/1359456471.html〕 She founded the production company in 2008 in Spain. The production company expanded its activities to the US in 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Irene Zoe Alameda」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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