Irene Lozano (Madrid, 1971) is an award- winning non fiction writer and a journalist, contributor to the Spanish newspaper El País. She writes regularly about current affairs in the El Pais Opinion pages and has a fortnightly column in the Vocento group regional newspapers.
Irene Lozano is the author of several books, including Lenguas en guerra (Languages at war), awarded the Espasa Essay Prize in 2005; the essays Lecciones para el inconformista aturdido (Lessons for the stunning maverick, 2009), about the lack of ideas of Europe’s political left in the economic crisis, and El saqueo de la imaginación (The Looting of the Imagination, 2008), about language manipulation; the biography of the Spanish first female minister, Federica Montseny, una anarquista en el poder (An anarchist in power, 2005); and Lenguaje femenino, lenguaje masculino (Female Language, Male Language, 1995). She is a guest commentator on several Spanish radio and TV debate programmes. She has contributed to the Swedish newspaper Expressen and the BBC radio programme, Europe. She is also a contributor to Claves Revista de Occidente and Letras Libres, the three amongst Spain’s most prestigious philosophical journals. Moreover, she has writen several biographies for the Biographical Dictionary of Spanish Literary Exile (University of Barcelona) and the Spanish Biographical Dictionary (Academy of History).
For five years she has written regularly about current affairs in the ABC newspaper Opinion pages and in its Literary Supplement. Between 1995-2005 she worked for the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, where she was an editorial writer, and reported as a special correspondent from Algeria, Mauritania, Kosovo, Nicaragua, Sweden, Western Sahara amongst other countries. She is BA in Linguistics (Universidad Complutense, Madrid) and she has obtained the Diploma in Philosophy at Birkbeck’s College, University of London.