death_date death_place pseudonym birth_place imagesize nationality birth_date period image article_title birth_name occupation
11 april 2009 gijón , asturias , spain corín tellado , ada miller leswy , ada miller el franco , asturias , spain 150px spanish 25 april 1927 1945 -- 2009 corin_tellado_cropped2 . jpg corín tellado
 maría del socorro tellado lópez novelist
corín tellado

maría del socorro tellado lópez -lrb- april 25 , 1927 , el franco , asturias -- april 11 , 2009 -rrb- , known as corín tellado , was a prolific spanish writer of romantic novels and photonovels that were best-sellers in several spanish-language countries .
she published more than 4,000 novels and sold more than 400-million books which have been translated into several languages .
she is listed in the 1994 guinness world records as having sold the most books written in spanish .
her novels were different from other contemporary western european romantic writers ' works because she usually set them in the present and did n't use eroticism , due to the spanish regime 's strict censorship .
her style was direct and her characters simply presented .
these novels have inspired several telenovelas .
