Marina Abràmova (; russian: Марина Абрамова, ) is a Russian expert in

Catalan Catalan may refer to: Catalonia From, or related to Catalonia: * Catalan language, a Romance language * Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia Places * 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...

culture, born in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

in 1955. She was awarded her doctorate at Lomonossov University in Moscow in 1986 for her thesis on

Tirant lo Blanch ''Tirant lo Blanch'' ( ; modern spelling: ''Tirant lo Blanc'') is a chivalric romance written by the Valencian knight Joanot Martorell, finished posthumously by his friend Martí Joan de Galba and published in the city of Valencia in 1490 as an ...

Joanot Martorell Joanot Martorell (; c. 1410 – 1465) was a Valencian knight and writer, best known for authoring the novel ''Tirant lo Blanch'', written in Valencian and published at Valencia in 1490. This novel is often regarded as one of the peaks of the l ...

. She has published numerous articles on the work of Martorell, and has also studied Ausiàs Marc and

Ramon Llull Ramon Llull (; c. 1232 – c. 1315/16) was a philosopher, theologian, poet, missionary, and Christian apologist from the Kingdom of Majorca. He invented a philosophical system known as the ''Art'', conceived as a type of universal logic to pro ...

. Abràmova is very active in Catalan studies through Lomonosov Moscow State University (MGU) participating during February 2016 in a literary translation seminar to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the First Conference of Catalan Culture in St. Petersburg that took place in April 1996. Abràmova was the editor of the anthology ''Ogon i rozi''. ''Sovreménnaia Katalonskaia poézia'' (The Fire and the roses: Catalan Contemporary Poetry, 1981) and the collection of articles ''Katalonskaia cultura vtxerà i segodnia'' (Catalan culture of yesterday and today, 1997), and has translated into Russian literary works by S. Dali, poems by M. Marti i Pol, and the novels ''El mar'' ("The Sea") by B. Bonet, and ''Tirant lo Blanch'' by J. Martorell.''Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana'', 2008

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Marina Abramova's faculty profile at the Moscow State University
(in Russian) Catalan culture Living people 1955 births {{Russia-academic-bio-stub