Maria Mercè Roca
Maria Mercè Roca i Perich | |
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![in 2012[1]](/wiki/File:Maria_Merc%C3%A8_Roca_02.png) in 2012[1] | |
| Born | Maria Mercè Roca i Perich July 19, 1958 Portbou, Spain |
| Occupation | Writer |
Maria Mercè Roca i Perich (b. Portbou, Spain, July 19, 1958) is a Catalan writer and politician from Spain. She was deputy to the Parliament of Catalonia for Republican Left of Catalonia, and currently serves as a councillor at the City Council of Girona for the same party.
Biography
[edit]At age 16, Roca moved to Girona, where she ended up establishing her residence. Although she did not finish her studies on Catalan Philology, she worked for many years as a Catalan teacher. In the mid-1980s, she rose in the Catalan cultural panorama when she was awarded the Víctor Català prize. She continued her literary activity with a number of tales, novels and also a script for the TV series Secrets de família, broadcast by TV3. Her career has always had a lot of success, both with literary prizes and translations into several languages, including Spanish, Basque, French, German and Dutch.
Roca is vice-president of the Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana.[2]
She is always been active in politics –she was deputy at the Parliament of Catalonia, where she was President of the Culture Commission (2007-2010)[3]– for Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) party between 2003 and 2010.
She was a candidate to the City council of Girona for (ERC) at the 2015 Spanish municipal elections, where ERC got 4 councillors, among which Roca was one of them.
Roca was one of the promoters of the platform Sobirania i Progrés.[3] In 2022 she was appointed dean of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes, a public body promoting catalan literature.[4]
Work
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Short stories
[edit]- 1986 Ben Estret
- 1986 Sort que hi ha l'horitzó
- 1987 El col·leccionista de somnis
- 1988 La veu del foc
- 1988 Capitells
- 1994 L'escrivent i altres contes
- 2001 Contes personals: Tria a cura de Carles Cortès
- 2006 Kenitra
Novels
[edit]- 1987 Els arbres vençuts
- 1987 El present que m'acull
- 1988 Perfum de nard
- 1988 Com un miratge
- 1990 La casa gran
- 1990 Temporada baixa
- 1992 Greuges infinits
- 1993 Cames de seda
- 1998 L'àngel del vespre
- 1999 Temps de perdre
- 2000 Delictes d'amor
- 2002 Una mare com tu
- 2003 L'últim tren
- 2005 Els dies difícils
- 2011 Bones Intencions[1]
Non-fiction
[edit]- 2001 El món era a fora (interviews)
- 2005 Coses que fan que la vida valgui la pena
Prizes
[edit]- 1985 Víctor Català prize for Sort que hi ha l'horitzó
- 1986 Josep Pla Award for El present que m'acull
- 1992 Sant Jordi prize for Cames de seda
- 2000 Ramon Llull Novel Award for Delictes d'amor[5]
- 2012 Barcanova prize for Mil revolts
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Maria Mercè Roca al Casal, 2012, Televisió Cardedeu, Retrieved 20 April 2016
- ^ "La junta". Retrieved 3 March 2015.
- ^ a b "Maria Mercè Roca". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
- ^ "Maria Mercè Roca, nova degana de la Institució de les Lletres Catalanes". Departament de Cultura (in Catalan). Retrieved 2022-05-05.
- ^ Gomila, Andreu (21 January 2000). "Maria Mercè Roca obtuvo el Premi Ramon Llull, dotado con 10 millones de pesetas" [Maria Mercè Roca Wins the Ramon Llull Award, Endowed with 10 Million Pesetas]. Última Hora (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
External links
[edit]- Maria Mercè Roca
- Maria Mercè Roca at Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana
- Maria Mercè Roca at Qui és Qui de les Llengües Catalanes
