Badalona
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, 1961) is a Spanish playwright who writes in Spanish and Catalan. In 2010, she became the first woman to be awarded the
National Dramatic Literature Award
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Biography
Lluïsa Cunillé Salgado was born in 1961.
A student of the playwright
José Sanchis Sinisterra
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, she trained in the textual
dramaturgy
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seminars given by him at the in Barcelona between 1990 and 1993. In 1991, she won the runners-up prize for the Ignasi Iglésias Award for ''Bern'' and the Calderón de la Barca Award for ''Rodeo'' (premiered in 1992).
Cunillé founded the company ''L'Hongaresa'' in 1993 together with the playwright and stage director and the actress and director Lola López. In collaboration with Paco Zarzoso, she has written and premiered ''Intempèrie'' (1996), ''Viajeras'' (2001), and ''Húngaros'' (2002). Cunillé was one of fifteen authors who wrote the production ''Sopa de Radio'', a programme with which
Cadena SER
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commemorated the 75th anniversary of the birth of radio in Spain.
Cunillé premiered numerous theatrical works in Catalan and in Spanish: ''Molt novembre'' (1993), ''La festa'' (1994), ''Libración'' (1994, Barcelona Critics Award 1993–1994), ''Accident'' (1996, Award of the Institution of Lletres Catalanes, 1997), ''Apocalipsi'' (1998), ''The affair'' (1999, Ciutat d'Alcoi Award 1998), ''La cita'' (1999), ''Passage Gutenberg'' (2000, Barcelona Critic Award 1999–2000), ''Vacants'' (2000 ), ''El gat negre'' (2001), ''L'anniversari'' (2001, Premi Born de Teatre 1999), and ''Aquel aire infinito'' (2003), ''Barcelona, mapa d'ombres'' (2004), among many others. She won, among others, the Ciutat de Lleida theatre award (1997) with ''Doze treballs''; the (2005) with ''Barcelona, mapa d'ombres''; the
Premios Max
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Award for the best playwright in Spanish (2007) also for ''Barcelona, mapa d'ombres''; the Lletra D'Or Award (2008) for ''Après moi, le déluge''. The
Generalitat de Catalunya
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awarded her the in 2007. Her play "Liberation" is featured in ''Plays by Mediterranean Women'' (1994, Aurora Metro Books).