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Marta Pessarrodona
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Marta Pessarrodona y Artigues, born on November 18, 1941, is a famous writer from Catalonia, Spain. She is known for her poetry, short stories, and literary criticism. She also writes essays and biographies about other people's lives. Marta Pessarrodona has written many books, including Primers dies de 1968, Setembre 30, and L'amor a Barcelona. In 1997, she received the Creu de Sant Jordi, a very important award.
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About Marta Pessarrodona
Marta Pessarrodona y Artigues was born in Terrassa, a city in Catalonia, on November 18, 1941.
Her Work and Studies
In 1986, she started teaching Spanish at the University of Nottingham in England. She also helped lead a group that shared Catalan culture around the world. This group was part of the Department of Culture in the Catalan government. In 2010, she was doing research about Spanish people who had to leave Spain during the civil war. She did this research at the National Archive of Catalonia.
Pessarrodona has written several books about the famous writer Virginia Woolf and a group of artists called the Bloomsbury Group. She has also translated books by many well-known authors. These include Susan Sontag, Doris Lessing, Erica Jong, Simone de Beauvoir, and Marguerite Duras.
Her Writing Style
Marta Pessarrodona's poetry is very realistic. It often sounds like she is thinking deeply or remembering something important. Her poems sometimes use irony, which means saying something that actually means the opposite, often for a funny or thoughtful effect. She regularly writes articles for newspapers like Avui and El Temps. She writes all her works in the Catalan language. In 2007, a collection of her best poems was published.
Awards and Special Honours
Marta Pessarrodona has received many important awards for her writing.
Major Awards
- In 1997, she was given the Creu de Sant Jordi (Saint George's Cross) by the Generalitat de Catalunya, which is the government of Catalonia. This is one of the highest honors in Catalonia.
- For her books published in 2010, including the poetry collection Animals i plantas and the essays França: enero 1939. La cultura catalana exiliada and L’exili violeta, she won the Premio Nacional de Literatura de la Generalidad de Cataluña in 2011. This is a national literature prize from the Catalan government.
- In 2019, she received the Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes. This award is given by an organization called Òmnium Cultural to honor a lifetime of work in Catalan literature.
- In 2023, she was awarded the Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia, another very high honor.
Library Named in Her Honour
A library in the Mira-sol neighborhood of Sant Cugat del Vallès is named after her. This shows how much her work is valued.
Selected Works
- Primers dies de 1968 (1968)
- Setembre 30 (1969)
- Vida privada (1972)
- Memòria (1979)
- A favor meu, nostre (1981)
- Berlin suite (1985)
- Homenatge a Walter Benjamin (1988)
- Les senyores-senyores ens els triem calbs (1988)
- Nessa: narracions (1988)
- Tria de poemes (1994)
- L'amor a Barcelona (1998)
- Fauna (1994)
- Barcelona, una nova ciutat europea (1995)
- Montserrat Roig: un retrat
- Maria Aurèlia Capmany: un retrat
- Frederica Montseny: un retrat
- El segle de les dones (2002)
- Virginia Woolf in the Midlands (2004)
- Caterina Albert: un retrat (2005)
- Mercè Rodoreda i el seu temps (2005)
- Donasses. Protagonistes de la Catalunya moderna (2006)
- Poemes 1969-2007: Antologia (2007)
- Animals i plantes (2010)
- França 1939. La cultura catalana exiliada (2010)
- L'exili violeta (2010)
- A favor nostre. Antologia de poemes i pròleg a cura d'Àngels Gregori (2019)
See also
In Spanish: Marta Pessarrodona para niños
