Paloma Díaz-Mas

Paloma Díaz-Mas
Born
Paloma Díaz-Mas

(1954-05-09) 9 May 1954
Madrid, Spain
Alma materComplutense University of Madrid
Occupation(s)Professor and writer
EmployerUniversity of the Basque Country Spanish National Research Council
Known forPhilology, History of literature, judaeo-Spanish, Belles-lettres
Board member ofAsociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval
AwardsPremio Herralde (1992) Premio Euskadi de Literatura en castellano (2000)
Seat i of the Royal Spanish Academy
Assumed office
6 November 2022
Preceded byMargarita Salas

Paloma Díaz-Mas (born 1954) is a Spanish writer and scholar.

She was born in Madrid and studied journalism and philology at university. In 1981, she obtained her doctorate from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, with a thesis on the subject of Sephardic poetry. At present, she teaches and conducts research at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid. As a professor of Spanish literature and Sephardic literature, she has taught at the Universidad del País Vasco, the University of Oregon and Washington University in St. Louis.

In April 2021, she was elected as numerary member of the Royal Spanish Academy, intended to occupy the seat i left by Margarita Salas.