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Mercè Rodoreda
Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí was a Catalan novelist, who wrote in the Catalan language.
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culture · Catalan novelist and poet · writer · novelist · poet · Esperantist · short story writer · painter · also Mercè Rodoreda, Merce Rodoreda, Merce Rodoreda i Gurgui, Rodoreda, Mercedes Rodoreda
Born 10 October 1908 · Died 13 April 1983 · Q234663
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
ondacero.es: 'Mercè i Joan': La història d'amor "bonica i potent" entre Mercè Rodoreda i Armand Obiols
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2023· 2 entries
EL PAÍS: ‘Anys de barbàrie. Mercè Rodoreda: la guerra i l’exili’, de Carme Arnau: El “desfici” de la guerra
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Cadena SER: Maria Bohigas: "Mercè Rodoreda va tenir una vida molt puta"
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2022· 2 entries
Público: "A Mercè Rodoreda encara la llegim massa exclusivament en clau catalana i cal llegir-la en clau europea"
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RTVE: Viure Mercè Rodoreda dins i fora de casa
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2021· 1 entry
La Vanguardia: Mercè Rodoreda, que hi és i no hi és
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2018· 1 entry
RTVE: 40 anys de la mort de Mercè Rodoreda, l'escriptora catalana més traduïda de la Història
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2015· 1 entry
CounterPunch: The Sad, Inescapable Reality: Mercè Rodoreda’s “War, So Much War”
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2011· 1 entry
La Vanguardia: Cartes a Mercè Rodoreda
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2009· 1 entry
The Nation: A Domestic Existentialist: On Mercè Rodoreda
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1998· 1 entry
A literature prize was instituted in her name: the Mercè Rodoreda Award for short stories and narratives
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Serra d'Or Critics' Prize for Literature and Essays for Death in Spring (1987).
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1983· 2 entries
Died 1983-04-13.
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Mercè Rodoreda died of very advanced liver cancer at the Muñoz Clinic, in Girona
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1982· 3 entries
Awarded Serra d'Or Critics' Prize for Literature and Essays for War so much war (1982).
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La plaça del Diamant was adapted to film with Silvia Munt in the role of Colometa and directed by Francesc Betriu
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Wrote a compilation of biographical articles published in Serra d'Or titled Childhood Files
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded Premi de la Crítica de narrativa catalana for Viatges i flors (1981).
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Awarded Serra d'Or Critics' Prize for Literature and Essays for Viatges i flors (1981).
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1980· 3 entries
Awarded City of Barcelona Award for Viatges i flors (1980).
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Awarded Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes (1980).
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And with these she won the City of Barcelona Award
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1979· 1 entry
Wrote her theatrical comedy El Maniquí, which was premiered in the same year by the Brujas de Dol company at the Sitges International Theater Festival directed by Aracelli Bruch
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1978· 1 entry
Semblava de seda i altres contes ("It looked like silk and other stories") was published, which was a compilation of stories written throughout her life
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1977· 1 entry
In which she had a house built next to the existing one; which would be finished in 1979
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Gold Letter for Mirall trencat (1976).
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1972· 2 entries
In Carmen Manrubia's chalet in Romanyà de la Selva, without ceasing to reside in Geneva, albeit more and more sporadically
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Spent the summer in La Senyal - currently called La Senyal Vell - in Romanyà de la Selva, which was a house owned by her friend Carmen Manrubia, however it had been designed by both of them
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1971· 1 entry
Her feeling of exile was accentuated with the death of her companion of many years, Armand Obiols, at the Vienna University Hospital
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1969· 1 entry
Awarded Ramon Llull Novel Award for El carrer de les Camèlies (1969).
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Serra d'Or Critics' Prize for Literature and Essays for Mi Cristina y otros cuentos (1968).
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Serra d'Or Critics' Prize for Literature and Essays for El carrer de les Camèlies (1967).
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Began working on the novel Broken Mirror, which years later would become one of the most successful works of the author
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1966· 2 entries
La calle de las Camelias was published and received the Sant Jordi Prize without her having submitted a candidacy
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Her mother, Montserrat Gurguí, died; and three years later her uncle-husband, Joan Gurguí, also passed
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1965· 2 entries
Awarded Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la for El carrer de les Camèlies (1965).
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Rodoreda took the first steps in the publication of her Complete Works after a request from Joaquim Molas, however they would not be published in Ediciones 62 until 1977
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1962· 1 entry
The novel was not exactly the one that had been presented for the Sant Jordi prize, but it had received an extension both in chapters and in corrections by Salas, Obiols and the author herself
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1961· 1 entry
Sent another work to the same award, Death in Spring, which did not win either
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1960· 1 entry
Submitted the novel to the Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la, previously known as the Joanot Martorell Prize
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1959· 1 entry
Rodoreda began to write the novel that was possibly the best of her career The Time of the Doves (Colometa), published in 1962 as La plaça del Diamant for El Club de los Novelistas
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1958· 2 entries
The book of short stories written under the name of Twenty-two short stories was published which, a year earlier, had received the prestigious Victor Català Prize
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Submitted Una mica d'història (A bit of history) for the Joanot Martorell Prize
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Mercè Rodoreda Award for Vint-i-dos contes (1957).
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1956· 2 entries
Awarded Joan Santamaria Prize (1956).
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Won the Joan Maragall Essay Prize with Three Sonnets and a Song that was published in the literary supplement La Gaceta de Letras de La Nova Revista (1955-1958)
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1954· 1 entry
Rodoreda and Obiols moved into an apartment at 19 Violet street, in a bourgeois neighborhood in the city of Geneva
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1952· 1 entry
Began recovery therapy at the Châtel-Guyon spa
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1951· 1 entry
Also approached painting, interested above all in painters such as Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee and Joan Miró, and she made some of her own creations
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1949· 1 entry
Awarded Mestre en Gai Saber (1949).
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1948· 1 entry
Awarded Flor Natural (1948).
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1947· 2 entries
Awarded Flor Natural (1947).
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During the Floral Games of the Catalan Language held in London, she won her first Natural Flower with six sonnets: Rosa, Amor novell, Adam a Eva, Ocell and two more untitled sonnets
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1945· 1 entry
Had begun to suffer from health problems, along with the reappearance of somatic paralysis in her right arm
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1941· 1 entry
Her partner Armand Obiols was arrested, and she was left alone until October of that year
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1939· 1 entry
A few months before the defeat of the Republicans, she fled into exile
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1938· 1 entry
The fifth novel by Mercè Rodoreda titled Aloma was published by the Institute of Catalan Letters
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1937· 1 entry
Awarded Joan Crexells award for Aloma (1937).
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1934· 1 entry
Studied at Liceu Dalmau (1931–1934).
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1933· 2 entries
Began her journalistic career in the weekly magazine Clarisme where she published twenty-two contributions: five prose on traditional culture, thirteen interviews, two reviews, a short story, and three comments on po
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Although the winner that year was Carles Soldevila
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1932· 1 entry
Rodoreda wrote her first novel, titled Am I an honored woman
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1931· 1 entry
Began to take classes at the Dalmau Lyceum, where she improved her knowledge of language under the guidance of the pedagogue, linguist and esperantist Delfí Dalmau i Enero, who greatly influenced her and encouraged h
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1929· 1 entry
Their only son, Jordi Gurguí i Rodoreda, was born
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1928· 1 entry
Her twentieth birthday, in the church of Bonanova
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1921· 1 entry
Her uncle Juan moved in with the family and changed the lifestyle of all its members, imposing austerity and conventional order
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1920· 1 entry
Participated in the drama Fifteen Days of Reign at Lourdes School
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1916· 1 entry
Studied at Escola Menéndez Pelayo (1915–1916).
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1913· 1 entry
When she was only five years old, she performed for the first time in a play playing the role of the girl Kitty in The Mysterious Jimmy Samson, at the Torrent de les Flors theater
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1910· 1 entry
Pere Gurguí had a monument in memory of Jacint Verdaguer erected in the garden of his house that bore an engraving with the title of the two most important works of the author, Canigó and L'Atlàntida; that place became t
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1908· 2 entries
Born 1908-10-10.
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At 340 carrer de Balmes, Barcelona Her parents were Andreu Rodoreda, from Terrassa and Montserrat Gurguí, from Maresme
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