Rosa Montero (b. 1951, Madrid) is an award-winning journalist for the Spanish newspaper El País and the author of some two dozen book-length works. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages, including Absent Love (1991), The Delta Function (1991), and Beautiful and Dark (2009) in English. Her most recent books include Lágrimas en la lluvia (2011) and El amor de mi vida (2011), and she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Puerto Rico in 2011.