Noemí Sabugal (Santa Lucía de Gordón, León, 1979) is the author of the novels The assassination of Socrates, The book was shortlisted for the Fernando Quiñones Novel Prize and chosen to represent Spain at the 11th European First Novel Festival in Budapest; Lurking, winner of the Premio de Novela Felipe Trigo; and An unlucky girl, about blues singer Big Mama Thornton. Her latest book is the essay Children of coal (Alfaguara) in which she draws on her memories as the daughter and granddaughter of miners to tell the story of life in the mining areas and narrates her travels over more than three years in the coal mining areas of Spain. With a degree in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid, she won the Castile and León Francisco de Cossío Journalism Prize for the report From crossroads to crossroads of cultures, on immigration in the Crucero neighbourhood of León.
