Marta Orriols (
Sabadell
Sabadell () is a city in Catalonia, Spain. It is in the south of the ''comarca'' of Vallès Occidental and its joint capital (co-capital), on the River Ripoll, north of Barcelona. Sabadell is located above sea level.
Sabadell pioneered the Ind ...
, 1975) is a
Catalan writer from Spain.
She studied cinematographic scriptwriting at the Bande à Part film school in Barcelona and creative writing at the
Ateneu Barcelonès. She received the 2018
Ã’mnium Prize
The Òmnium Prize for Best Novel of the Year is a literary prize awarded by the Òmnium Cultural association for a Catalan-language novel. It has a €20,000 award for the author and a €5,000 award for the publisher of the work. It is the best ...
for best Catalan-language novel by
Ã’mnium Cultural, the No Llegiu Prize, and the Illa dels Llibres Prize for Best Novel of 2018.
Her novel has been translated to several languages, including English (''Learning to talk to plants'', published by
Pushkin Press
Pushkin Press is a British-based publishing house dedicated to publishing novels, essays, memoirs and children's books. The London-based company was founded in 1997 and is notable for publishing authors such as Stefan Zweig, Marcel Aymé, Anta ...
) and French. She lives in
Barcelona with her two sons.
References
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Writers from Barcelona
Writers from Catalonia
1975 births
Living people
People from Sabadell
Catalan-language writers