 In 1989 she was a finalist for the Spanish literature award, the Nadal Prize.Her literary work makes it one of the main exponents of magical realism, especially present in her novel La muerte definitiva de Pedro el Largo (1998), which has been compared with "Pedro Páramo" (1955), by Juan Rulfo.Her main work, Hagiography of Narcisa the Beautiful (1985), is an exercise in literary virtuosity written in a single paragraph and supposes a feminist and subversive critique, full of black humour.