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Maria Antònia Oliver Cabrer

マリア・アントニア・オリバー・カブレル

Maria Antònia Oliver Cabrer

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1946-12-04 (Manacor, Balearic Islands, Spain)
Died
2022-02-10 (Barcelona, Spain) age 75
Nationality
Spanish
Languages
Catalan, Spanish, Castilian
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Manacor, Balearic Islands (birthplace) → Barcelona (from 1969)

Career

Occupations
novelist, short story writer, translator, playwright, screenwriter
Active Years
1970-2022
Affiliations
Ofèlia Dracs, Institució de les Lletres Catalanes
Nominations
Finalist for the Sant Jordi Prize (1984) for Crineres de foc

Awards

Prudenci Bertrana Prize
Result: winner
Outstanding Achievement Award of the Llibre Setmana in Catalan
2001
Result: winner
Ramon Llull Prize
2003
Organization: Balearic Government
Result: winner
Prize for Catalan Literature of the Generalitat of Catalonia
1985
Work: Moby Dick (translation)
Organization: Generalitat of Catalonia
Result: winner
Jaume Fuster Prize
2004
Organization: for Catalan Writers
Result: winner
Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes
2016
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Cròniques d'un mig estiu

1970 Novel
Translations
  • German, English, Spanish, Galician, French, Portuguese, Russian

Bibliography

  • Cròniques d'un mig estiu (1970)
  • Cròniques de la molt anomenada ciutat de Montcarrà (1972)
  • El vaixell d'Iràs i no Tornaràs (1976)
  • Punt d'arròs (1979)
  • Crineres de foc (1985)
  • Estudi en lila (1985)
  • Antípodes (1988)
  • Joana E. (1992)
  • El sol que fa l'ànec (1994)
  • Amor de cans (1994)
  • Tallats de lluna (2000)

Legacy

Spanish writer honored for her contributions to Catalan literature, with works translated into several languages, recipient of the Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes in 2016.

Trivia

  • Married to writer Jaume Fuster.