Esther Tusquets (30 August 1936 – 23 July 2012) was a Spanish

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Biography

Tusquets was born in

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, Spain. Her brother is the architect

Òscar Tusquets Oscar Tusquets Blanca, (born 1941 in Barcelona) is a Spanish architect. Selected works ;Urbanism: * Del Liceu al Seminari, 1980-81 * Convent dels Àngels area, 1983 * Avinguda de la Catedral, 1986 * Olympic Village An Olympic Village is an ac ...

. She studied

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at the

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. She spent several years teaching literature and history at the Carillo Academy. She was the director of the publishing house Lumen in Barcelona. Tusquets published her first

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(''The Same Sea as Every Summer'') in 1978. It was the first in a trilogy and was followed by (''Love is a Solitary Game'') in 1979 and (''Stranded'') in 1980. Her focus in these novels was language and the

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body as battlefields. Tuquet had

Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The symptoms usually emerge slowly, and as the disease worsens, non-motor symptoms becom ...

for several years. She died of

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at the age of 75 in Barcelona on 23 July 2012.

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* 1936 births 2012 deaths Writers from Barcelona Women writers from Catalonia Spanish women novelists Spanish women essayists People with Parkinson's disease Deaths from pneumonia in Spain 20th-century Spanish novelists 20th-century Spanish women writers 20th-century essayists {{catalonia-writer-stub