Maria Àngels Anglada

Maria Àngels Anglada i d'Abadal (born March 9, 1930 in Vic ; † April 23, 1999 in Figueres ) was a Catalan author.

Life

Maria Àngels Anglada was born on Carrer de la Riera, a street in the old quarter of Vic, as the eldest daughter of the writers Joan Angela i Vilardebó (1895–1979) and Maria d'Abadal i Pedral (1905–2003). During the Spanish Civil War 1936-39, the family spent three years in the Basque town of Euzkati in the Donostia region, where Anglada first attended elementary school. After Franco's victory, the family returned to Vic in 1939.

She studied classical philology at the University of Barcelona and worked on the translation of Latin and Greek classics into Catalan . As a result of her philological studies, Anglada also wrote books with stories about Greek mythology for young readers. She also wrote for literary magazines. Her writing skills first attracted her attention in a literary competition in 1947.

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Anglada established itself in her homeland with publications in various literary genres, such as fiction , poetry , essay writing , translation and literary criticism . She wrote twelve prose works, four volumes of poetry, seven books for children and young people as well as essays and translations.

The well-known Catalan author and literary critic Jaume Cabré , who dealt with Anglada's works, described her in the following words: “Maria Àngels Anglada directed her life on three worlds: Vic (her hometown), the Alt Empordà and her beloved Greece. She is a universal poet who writes novels. "

She received the Josep Pla Prize for her novel Les Closes (1978) . Furthermore, she received the literary criticism award of Catalonia ( Premi de la Critica de narrativa Catalana ) and the Poetry Gold Prize ( Lletra d'Or ) for her book of poetry Sandalines d'escuma . In 1991 she became a member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (Institute for Catalan Studies).

Her best-known work is Die Violin von Auschwitz ( El violí d'Auschwitz ), which was awarded the 1995 Catalan Book of the Year Prize ( Premi Novel l'Any ). The novel sold over 100,000 times in Catalonia. In 2009 Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich, published the novel, translated by Theres Moser ( ISBN 978-3-630-87326-8 ). review

Awards and honors

• 1978: Josep Pla Prize for Les closes
• 1985: Premi de la Crítica de narrativa catalana (literary criticism award of Catalonia) for Sandálies d'escuma
• 1986: Lletra d'Or (Poetry Gold Prize for Sandàlies d'escuma)
• 1995: Premi Novel la de l'Any (Book of the Year Prize) for The Violin of Auschwitz
• 1999: Premi Octavi Pellissa for her short story book Nit de 1911
• 1991: Member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans
• 1994: Creu de Sant Jordi (Cross of Saint George): highest distinction of the Generalitat de Catalunya
• 1996: Adopted daughter of the city of Figueres

Publications

Novels

• Les closes (Premi Josep Pla, 1978)
• No em dic Laura (1981)
• Viola d'Amore (1983)
• Sandàlies d'escuma (Premi Lletra d'Or i Premi de la Crítica de narrativa catalana, 1985)
• Artemísia (1989)
• La daurada Parmèlia i altres contes (1991)
• L'agent del rei (1991)
• El violí d'Auschwitz (1994, Premi Novel l'Any 1995)
• Cubes d'Aram (1997)
• Nit de 1911 (Premi Octavi Pellissa, 1999)

Poetry

• Díptic, en col·laboració amb Núria Albó (1972)
• Kiparíssia (1980)
• Columna d'hores (1990)
• Arietta (1996)

prose

• Aproximació a la poesia de Salvador Espriu, dins Salvador Espriu en els seus millors escrits (1974)
• Viatge a Ítaca amb Josep Carner (1982)
• Paisatge amb poetes (1988)
• Others
• Sebastià Casanovas i Canut, Memòries d'un pagès del segle XVIII, ed. M. À. Anglada i Jordi Geli (1978)
• Relats de mitologia: els déus (1996)
• Relats de mitologia: els herois (1996)
• Retalls de la vida a Grècia i Roma (1997)

Web links

• Literature by and about Maria Àngels Anglada in the catalog of the German National Library
• Maria Àngels Anglada in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ 1. Website of Maria Anglada's former chair at the University of Barcelona [1] .
2. ↑ 2. Website about Maria Àngels Anglada. [2] .
3. ↑ 2. Escriptors Website [ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 4, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ]. 
4. ↑ 3. Article on Anglada in the Catalan daily newspaper Avui . [3]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
5. ↑ Jutta Lambrecht on info-netz-music ; accessed on January 26, 2015