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Mercè Rodoreda
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Spanish writer (1908-1983)
Mercè Rodoreda was a Spanish writer from Catalonia (1908-1983) who is considered one of the most important literary figures of the 20th century in her region. She is best known for her novels that explore the interior lives of ordinary people, particularly women, and her work remains influential in Catalan literature.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 36
Top works
- Mesos amb erra
- Contes per llegir en deu minuts
- La plaza del diamante
- Journeys and Flowers
- Aloma
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Spain
- Active from
- 1851-02-13
- Active to
- 1922-10-09
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 130
- Total plays
- 4,118
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Barcelona
- Place of death
- Girona
- Occupation
- short story writer
- Languages spoken
- Esperanto
- Native language
- Catalan
- Field of work
- literature
- Official website
- www.mercerodoreda.cat
- Image
- Rodoreda.jpg
- Number of children
- 1
- Residence
- Romanyà de la Selva
Show 14 more facts
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons gallery
- Mercè Rodoreda
- date of death
- 1983-04-13
- date of birth
- 1908-10-10
- Commons category
- Mercè Rodoreda
- birth name
- Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí
- cause of death
- liver cancer
- name in native language
- Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí
- influenced by
- Delfí Dalmau i Gener
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:List of 1000 basic articles
- writing language
- Catalan
- start of work period
- 1930-00-00
- P12674
- Younger Memnon
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Encyclopedic overview
Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí ( Catalan pronunciation: [məɾˈsɛ ruðuˈɾɛðə]; 10 October 1908 – 13 April 1983) was a Catalan novelist, who wrote in the Catalan language.
She is considered the most influential contemporary Catalan language writer, as evidenced by other authors' references to her work and her international reputation, with translations into more than thirty languages.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mercè Rodoreda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.