With the very funny Petra Delicado, Alicia Jimenez Bartlett created in the 1990’s the first character of inspector in the world of European crime. The Barcelona actress was the guest of the Polar Workshops “The Time” – Jan Michalski Foundation
Feminists and funny, these would be the two flagship ingredients that make Alicia Jimenez Bartlett, former professor of Spanish literature, titles apart from the big family of the current detective literature. It’s a bit hard to admit, but the arrival of Petra Delicado, her character of inspector to speak directly and raw, on the scene of the black novel, in the 1990’s, was a first. Until then, the policemen in the fictional maneuver were men. Petra Delicado brings the immediate sympathy of readers with his humor, a taste for the ironic trait, practiced as an antidote to all the hard knocks.
Success is also due to his alter ego, his deputy Fermi n Garzón. With titles published in French, Rites de mort (2000, Riv-ages / Noir) to Nobody wants to know (2015), we are witnessing the development of an unfailing friendship, whereas at the beginning they were like dog and cat.