Cèlia Suñol i Pla
Cèlia Suñol i Pla (born May 5, 1899 in Barcelona , † June 8, 1986 in Barcelona) was a Catalan writer .
Life
Cèlia Suñol was a daughter of the politician Antoni Suñol i Pla and his wife Antònia Pla i Manent. While her childhood and adolescence were calm and stable, the death of her parents became the turning point in her life. In 1921 she fell ill with tuberculosis and went to Switzerland for a cure. There she met Kaj Hansen, whom she married in Denmark in 1922. A year later they moved back to Catalonia , where their child Antoni was born. Hansen died in 1929. Suñol later married Joaquim Figuerola, with whom she had their daughter Rosa (* 1931). From 1932 Suñol worked as a secretary in the Department de Cultura of the Generalitat de Catalunya . In 1945 Joaquim Figuerola died. Two years later, Cèlia Suñol won the Premi Joanot Martorell (now Premi Sant Jordi ) literary prize for her novel Primera part . In 1950 she brought out L'home de les fires i altres contes . She went blind at the age of 65. In 1986 she died at the age of 87.
Works
- 1947 - Primera part , Barcelona, Aymà. Reissued by Adesiara in 2014 with the fragments censored by Franquism.
- 1950 - L'home de les fires i altres contes , Barcelona, Selecta.
Awards
- Premi Joanot Martorell de novella 1947 for Primera part .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homenatge a Arthur Terry . L'Abadia de Montserrat, 1999, ISBN 978-84-8415-064-0 , pp. 252 ( google.com ).
- ^ Sunyol Pla, Celia . Retrieved April 21, 2016.
- ↑ Adesiara Editorial reedita la tragèdia romàntica “Primera part” de Cèlia Suñol amb els fragments censurats pel franquisme . November 6, 2014. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Suñol i Pla, Celia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catalan writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1986 |
| Place of death | Barcelona |