Laura Freixas

Laura Freixas (born 1958) is a Spanish novelist, short story writer, and newspaper columnist.

Biography

Freixas was born in Barcelona in 1958. Laura Freixas is the granddaughter of Freixas Miquel. Freixas studied at the French School in her home city of Barcelona.

She has also worked in international universities as a publisher, a Spanish language assistant, and a translator. and the chair of the association Clásicas y Modernas for gender equality in Spanish culture from 2009 to 2017.

Literary work

Novels Último domingo en Londres (1997) Entre amigas (1998) Amor o lo que sea (2005), translated into English as Love A Reader. Los otros son más felices (2011) A mí no me iba a pasar (2019)

Short story collections The Wrist Murderer (1988) Tales at the Age of Forty (2001)

Compilations

Mothers and Daughters (1996) – Freixas also wrote the prologue Women Friends (2009)

Non-fiction works Literatura y mujeres (2000) La novela femenil y sus lectrices (2009)

Autobiography A Teenager in Barcelona Around 1970 (2007)