Núria Añó (, ; born 1973) is a Catalan writer and a

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. Añó has exhibited her work in universities and institutions giving papers on literary creation or authors like

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, Salka Viertel,

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or Alexandre Dumas, fils, 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

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, 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

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, or ''Presage'', about

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, both translated into English. Her first novel ''Els nens de l'Elisa'' (2006) was third among the finalists for the 24th

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Prize for

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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. ''The Dead Writer'' (2008) shows creating a literary work through Anna, a writer, and the world and lives of the surrounding people. It is an "insightful

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artefact" about the process of creation and how

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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." They published the original in Spain in 2008. ''Lowering Clouds'' (2009) is a novel about mature women. Gabriele is a

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actress 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

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. Another friend, Silvia, must care for the grandchildren daily. Among others, it has a significant

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background. This novel is "a piece of real life, dissected with the razor-sharp scalpel of Añó's writing." They published it in 2009. ''La mirada del fill'' (2012) is a novel about adoption, classic

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s, and generational troubles between mothers and daughters. "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." They published it in 2012. ''The Salon of Exiled Artists in California'' (2020) is a

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on Jewish

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Salka Viertel that "gives always the voice and the word to Salka Viertel." This book is about the

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of the

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and the transition from silent to spoken film in

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; the rise of Hitler and what it meant for the

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condition. Also, the exile of many European

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because of the

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, the

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and the

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against

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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." They translated her work, which includes novels, short stories and essays, into

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, French, English,

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, Polish, Chinese, Latvian, Portuguese, Dutch,

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as well.

Style

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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

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Prize for Fiction. In 2016, she was distinguished by the culture association Nuoren Voiman Liitto in

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, Finland. Later, she won a grant at the Shanghai Writing Program, in

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, China. In 2017, she was distinguished by the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators in

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, Sweden. Late in the fall, by International Writer's and Translators' Center of

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in Greece. In 2018, she was selected for the residency

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. Kraków City of Literature, February 20, 2018. in Poland and she won the fourth international writing award 2018 Shanghai Get-Together. In 2019, she was distinguished by IWTH in

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, Latvia, and in 2020, with the International Writing Program in

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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) (audiobook) (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) * ''Os Meninos de Elisa''; 2023 (eBook)(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)

References

External links

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