L exili de merce rodoreda biography

Spanish novelist and poet

In this Catalan name, the first or paternal surname is Rodoreda and the second or maternal family name is Gurguí; both are generally joined by the conjunction "i".

Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí (Catalan pronunciation:[məɾˈsɛruðuˈɾɛðə]; 10 October 1908 – 13 April 1983) was a novelist, who wrote in Catalan.

She is considered the most influential contemporary Catalan language writer,^[1] as evidenced by the references of other authors in her work and the international repercussion, with translations into more than thirty languages.^[2][3]

She also has been called the most important Catalan female novelist of the postwar period.^[4] Her novel La plaça del diamant ('The diamond square', translated as The Time of the Doves, 1962) has become the most popular Catalan novel to date and has been translated into over 30 languages.

Some critics consider it to be one of the best novels pub