 | This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Maria Barbal" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
Maria Barbal i Farré (Tremp, Pallars Jussà, 17 September 1949) is a Spanish writer. She spent her childhood in rural Catalonia, which profoundly influenced her literary work. In 1964, at the age of 14, she moved to Barcelona to pursue her education, eventually earning a degree in Hispanic Studies from the University of Barcelona in 1971.
Career
Even though she has lived in Barcelona from the 1960s onward, the literary world of her early work as an author concentrates on the Pallars county of her childhood and adolescence, a rural surrounding observed by a critical eye. Her first novel, Pedra de tartera , fully set in that space, was praised by the public and critics alike. Her first novel has been translated into English as Stone in a Landslide. Later works take up more urban environments. She also is the author of short stories, juvenile novels, and a theatre play.
Barbal's work has been translated into Asturian, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch. Throughout her career, Barbal has received numerous accolades, including the Creu de Sant Jordi in 2001, one of Catalonia's highest honors. In 2021, she was awarded the Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes in recognition of her significant contributions to Catalan literature.
Literary work
Novels
- 1985 Pedra de tartera
- 1990 Mel i metzines
- 1992 Càmfora
- 1996 Escrivia cartes al cel
- 1999 Carrer Bolívia
- 2002 Cicle de Pallars
- 2003 Bella edat
- 2005 País íntim
Prose
- 2001 Camins de quietud: Un recorergut literari per pobles abandonats del Pirineu
Short narrative
- 1986 La mort de Teresa
- 1994 Ulleres de sol
- 1998 Bari
Child and juvenile narrative
- 1991 Pampallugues
- 1992 Des de la gàbia
- 1995 Espaguetti Miu
Theatre
- 2000 L'helicòpter
References
- "Biografia Barbal | Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana". www.escriptors.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 2024-11-07.
- "Peirene Press". Archived from the original on 2010-03-06. Retrieved 2010-03-12.
- "Maria Barbal". Biblioteca Virtual (in Catalan). Retrieved 2024-11-07.
External links
- "Maria Barbal". lletrA-UOC – Open University of Catalonia.
- Author’s website at the Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (Catalan Writers’ Association), in Catalan.
- Biblioteca Virtual - Diputació de Barcelona: Maria Barbal
- The author at the Qui és qui de les lletres catalanes (Who is who in Catalan literature), in Catalan.
  | This article about a Catalan writer is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |
 | This article about a Spanish writer is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |
- Writers from Catalonia
- Catalan-language writers
- 1949 births
- Living people
- Spanish women novelists
- Spanish women short story writers
- Spanish women children's writers
- Spanish women dramatists and playwrights
- Short story writers from Catalonia
- Spanish children's writers
- 20th-century Spanish women writers
- 21st-century Spanish women writers
- 20th-century Spanish novelists
- 21st-century Spanish novelists
- 21st-century Spanish writers
- 20th-century Spanish dramatists and playwrights
- People from Pallars Jussà
- 20th-century Spanish short story writers
- 21st-century short story writers
- Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes winners
- Teachers of Catalan
- Catalan writer stubs
- Spanish writer stubs