Juana Salabert (born 1962) is a Spanish writer, journalist, literary critic and translator. She is the winner of Premio Biblioteca Breve 2001 and the runner-up for Premio Nadal 1996.

She was born in 1962, in Paris, where her parents lived in exile from Francoist dictatorship.^[1][2] Her father was the journalist Miguel Salabert.^[2][3] She completed a philology degree at the Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail.^[2][4]

Salabert writes in Spanish^[1] and her body of work includes novels, short stories, a travel book and a children's book.^[4] Her writings often deal with the history and the aftermath of World War II or the Spanish Civil War, or touch upon the history of displacement of her own family.^[5][6] She debuted in 1996 with Varadero, followed by Arde lo que será which was published the same year and was the runner-up for the Premio Nadal.^[1][4] Her 2001 novel Velódromo de invierno, which described the horrors of Nazism through the eyes of a child, was awarded with Premio Biblioteca Breve.^[1]

Salabert was the finalist for Rómulo Gallegos Prize (2011), Premio Dulce Chacón (2005), National Literature Prize for Narrative (2005) and Premio Dashiell Hammett (2008).^[4]

Apart from writing longer forms, Salabert has also written for the press, including texts of literary criticism, as well as worked as a literary translator.^[2]

• Varadero, 1996
• Arde lo que será, 1996
• Mar de los espejos, 1998
• Aire nada más, 1999
• Estación central, 1999
• La bruja marioneta, 2001 (children's book)
• Velódromo del invierno, 2001
• La noche ciega, 2004
• Hijas de la ira, 2005
• El bulevar del miedo, 2007
• Cuentos de amigas, 2009
• La faz de la tierra, 2011
• La regla del oro, 2015^[7]
• Atentado, 2022^[3]