Núria Añó (, ; born 1973) is a
Catalan
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Places
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writer
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and a
translator
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. Añó has exhibited her work in universities and institutions giving papers on literary creation or
author
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s like
Elfriede Jelinek
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,
Patricia Highsmith
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She wrote 22 novel ...
,
Salka Viertel,
Franz Werfel
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,
Karen Blixen or
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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, as well as giving talks in libraries and secondary and higher education centres. She is also a member of several international artistic juries.
Work
Añó was born in
Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. She started writing tales at a young age and published her first story in 1990. After that, she published in anthology books from abroad, such as the short stories ''2066. Beginning the age of correction'', about
climate change
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, or ''Presage'', about
domestic violence, both translated into English.
Her first novel ''Els nens de l'Elisa'' (2006) was third among the finalists for the 24th
Ramon Llull Prize for
Catalan literature
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, one of the most relevant literary awards in Catalan language. This novel has a female main character detached from the clichés. Núria Añó draws an antiheroine through a school teacher and shows both the tender and the most sordid side.
''L'escriptora morta'' (2008) (''The Dead Writer'', 2020) shows the process of creating a literary work through Anna, a writer, and the world and lives of the surrounding people. It is an "insightful
literary
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artefact" about the process of
creation and how
literature
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reflects itself within a literary work. It "suggests images capable of depicting daily scenes that often, life does not let us see." The original was published in Spain in 2008.
''Núvols baixos'' (2009) (''Lowering Clouds'', 2020) is a
novel about
mature women
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. Gabriele is a
bisexual actress
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that takes a trip to the city where she spent her adolescence. Her friend Marianne is older and hardly remembers the actress, because she has
Alzheimer's disease. Another friend, Silvia, is a
housewife
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that must care for the grandchildren daily. Among others, it has a significant
LGBT
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background. This novel is "a piece of real life, dissected with the razor-sharp scalpel of Añó's writing." It was published in 2009.
''La mirada del fill'' (2012) is a novel about
adoption, classic
ballet dancer
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s, and generational troubles between
mother
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s and
daughter
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s. "Apparently understood facts, that the novel reveals at the right time, give the impression of reading a story written by scales, in which events overlap until they form a general panorama." It was published in 2012.
''El salon de los artistas exiliados en California'' (2020) (''The Salon of Exiled Artists in California'', 2020) is a
biography
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on Jewish
screenwriter Salka Viertel and results from three years of an extensive research that "gives always the voice and the word to Salka Viertel." This book is about the
Berlin
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of the
1920s
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and the transition from
silent to spoken film in
Hollywood; the rise of Hitler and what it meant for the
Jewish
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condition. Also, the exile of many European
artists
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because of the
Second World War
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, the
Cold War and the
witch-hunt
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against
communism
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; an in-depth account of many well-known and famous personalities and their interpersonal relationships. Although Salka Viertel was an important figure in the exile, "very little has been written about her, so Núria Añó's book is a corrective."
Her work, which includes novels, short stories and essays, has been published and translated into
Spanish
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,
French,
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,
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,
Polish
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,
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,
Latvian,
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,
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People E ...
,
Greek
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,
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or
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as well.
Style
According to several academic
journal
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s of
literature
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, Añó's work is considered "one of the big promises of the contemporary narrative for Catalan Literature."
Her writing style is very ambitious and risky, the author delves into the exploration of the contemporary individual, it focuses on the psychology of her
characters
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, generally
antiheroes avoiding
Manichaeism
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. "The characters are the most important" in her books, "much more than the topic", due to "an introspection, a reflection, not sentimental, but feminine". Although her novels cover a multitude of topics, treat actual and socially relevant problems, injustices and poor communication between people. Frequently, the core of her stories remains unexplained, and Núria Añó asks the reader to discover the "deeper meaning" and to become involved in the events presented.
Awards
In 1996, she was awarded the 18th City of Almenara
Joan Fuster
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Prize for Fiction. In 2016, she was distinguished by the culture association Nuoren Voiman Liitto in
Sysmä
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,
Finland
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. Later, she won a grant at the Shanghai Writing Program, in
Shanghai
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,
China. In 2017, she was distinguished by the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators in
Visby
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,
Sweden. Late in the fall, by International Writer's and Translators' Center of
Rhodes
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in
Greece
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. In 2018, she was selected for the residency
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. Kraków City of Literature, February 20, 2018. in Poland
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and she won the fourth international writing award 2018 Shanghai Get-Together. In 2019, she was distinguished by IWTH in Ventspils
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, Latvia, and in 2020, with the International Writing Program in Beijing
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, China.
Bibliography
Novels
* ''Els nens de l'Elisa''; Omicron 2006
* ''L'escriptora morta'' (The Dead Writer, 2020); Omicron 2008
* ''Núvols baixos'' (Lowering Clouds, 2020); Omicron 2009
* ''La mirada del fill''; Abadia 2012
Biographies
* ''El salón de los artistas exiliados en California: Salka Viertel acogió en su exilio a actores, intelectuales prominentes y personas anónimas huidas del nazismo'' (The Salon of Exiled Artists in California, 2020); Smashwords 2020
Books translated into English
Work translated into other languages
=Novels
=
* ''The Dead Writer''; 2020 (ebook) (paperback) (English)
* ''Lowering Clouds''; 2020 (ebook) (paperback) (English)
* ''The Salon of Exiled Artists in California: Salka Viertel took in actors, prominent intellectuals and anonymous people in exile fleeing from Nazism''; 2020 (eBook) (paperback) (hardcover) (English)
* ''La escritora muerta''; 2018 (ebook) (paperback) (audiobook); (hardcover) (Spanish)
* ''La mirada del hijo''; 2019 (ebook) (paperback) (hardcover) (Spanish)
* ''Nubes bajas''; 2021 (eBook) (paperback) (audiobook) (hardcover) (Spanish)
* ''La scrittrice morta''; 2018 (eBook) (paperback) (Italian)
* ''Nuvole basse''; 2018 (eBook) (paperback) (Italian)
* ''Lo sguardo del figlio''; 2019 (eBook) (paperback) (Italian)
* ''A escritora morta''; 2018 (eBook) (paperback) (Portuguese)
* ''O Olhar do Filho''; 2018 (eBook) (paperback) (Portuguese)
* ''Nuvens baixas''; 2019 (eBook) (paperback)(Portuguese)
* ''L'écrivaine morte''; 2018 (eBook) (paperback) (French)
* ''Le regard du fils''; 2019 (eBook) (paperback) (French)
* ''Nuages bas''; 2020 (eBook) (paperback) (French)
* ''De dode schrijfster''; 2019 (eBook) (paperback) (Dutch)
* ''De blik van de zoon''; 2020 (eBook) (paperback) (Dutch)
* ''Tiefe Wolken''; 2019 (eBook) (paperback) (German)
* ''Die tote Schriftstellerin''; 2019 (eBook) (paperback) (German)
* ''Der Blick des Sohnes''; 2019 (eBook) (paperback) (German)
* ''TO ΒΛΕΜΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΓΙΟΥ''; 2019 (eBook) (paperback) (Greek)
* ''Η Νεκρή Συγγραφέας''; 2020 (eBook) (paperback) (Greek)
* ''Χαμηλά σύννεφα''; 2021 (eBook) (Greek)
=Biography
=
* ''The Salon of Exiled Artists in California''; 2020 (eBook) (paperback) (English)
* ''Το σαλόνι των εξόριστων καλλιτεχνών στην Καλιφόρνια''; 2020 (eBook) (Greek)
* ''Der Salon der Exilkünstler in Kalifornien''; 2020 (eBook) (paperback) (German)
* ''O Salão dos Artistas Exilados na Califórnia''; 2021 (eBook) (paperback) (Portuguese)
* ''Le salon des artistes exilés en Californie''; 2021 (eBook) (paperback) (French)
* ''Il salone degli artisti esiliati in California''; 2021 (eBook) (paperback) (Italian)
* ''De salon van artiesten in ballingschap in Californië''; 2022 (eBook) (paperback) (Dutch)
See also
* Catalan literature
Catalan literature is the name conventionally used to refer to literature written in the Catalan language. The focus of this article is not just the literature of Catalonia, but literature written in Catalan from anywhere, so that it includes writ ...
* Écriture féminine
''Écriture féminine,'' or "women's writing", is a term coined by French feminist and literary theorist Hélène Cixous in her 1975 essay " The Laugh of the Medusa". Cixous aimed to establish a genre of literary writing that deviates from tradi ...
* Spanish literature
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* Translation
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* Literary work
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References
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1973 births
Living people
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