Corn Tellado – Biography of Corn Tellado

Maria del Socorro Tellado López He was born on April 25, 1927 in Asturias, in the Viavelez neighborhood. She was the only woman of the five children of the marriage. His father was a naval engineer in the Merchant Navy and his mother a hardworking housewife. As a child they called her Socorrín and she is hence where the hypocoristic Corín arises. From a very young age she showed her skills and great love of reading and writing. His favorite authors were Alexander dumas, Honore de Balzac Y Miguel Delibes.

Her family had financial problems when her father died in 1945, due to this a bookseller from Cádiz connects the young Tellado with a publishing house called Bruguera. Very soon just a year later, this label would make his novel public “Daring bet”From that moment Corín dedicated himself to writing a short novel per week for this publishing house.

Corín never thought that success would come so soon and became a highly sought-after writer. Vanidades magazine made him a contract in 1951, which consisted of delivering two short and unpublished novels per month. The repercussion was immediate, of 16 thousand copies every two weeks, the publication achieved a circulation of 68 thousand, surpassing any writer of the time.
Corín Tellado was growing as a writer, becoming a true literary phenomenon. UNESCO declared her the most widely read author in the Spanish language after the Bible and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

This young and talented writer worked for many years exclusively for the Bruguera publishing house, but in 1965 she decided to become part of the team of another publishing house, Rollan. Twelve months later, Corín illustrated would appear, a collection of fotonovelas that every fortnight went on sale.

At that time the work Sociología de una novela rosa appeared, published by Andres Amorós and that was the result of the inspiration in ten titles of this excellent writer. From that moment, Tellado and his novels went beyond borders and were translated into several languages.

For 1978 and 1979, the Spanish writer returned to her first Bruguera publishing house and published 26 erotic pocket novels for her but with other pseudonyms, in some it appeared as Ada Miller Leswy and in others just like Ada MillerDue to his great ability to create, in 1989 Corín Tellado had written a total of 2,243 novels. Two years later he was able to publish his first long novel called “Hidden fight” and then I would do it with “Bitter feelings”.

Many works are synonymous with this excellent writer of love novels, within her great and arduous work others such as “That world of darkness”, “Mel’s disappointment”, “You forgot me the next day”, “To your grandma” Y “The fate of the shadows”, among many more. Tellado’s novels are very different from the classic European novels of the pink genre, they are characterized by taking place today and the women in his works identify with ordinary women; although in his later novels the characters were of a high social position.

As of 1995 she became ill and had to undergo three peritoneal dialysis sessions per week, this did not prevent her from continuing, because her daughter-in-law wrote for her. By 2000 he published his first novel online “Miracle on the way”. But despite the efforts of specialists, the sad end came to this love writer, a April 11, 2009, Corín Tellado, 81 years old, died at his home located in Guijón, due to a cerebral infarction.