Marta Pessarrodona i Artigues

Marta Pessarrodona y Artigues (born November 18, 1941) is a Catalan poet, storyteller and literary critic. She has also written essays and biographies. She is the author of books such as Primers dies de 1968, Setembre 30 (1969), Vida privada (1972), Memòria (1979), A favor meu, nostre (1981), Tria de poemes (1994), and L'amor a Barcelona (1998). In 1997, she received the Creu de Sant Jordi.

Biography Marta Pessarrodona y Artigues was born in Terrassa, Vallès Occidental, November 18, 1941.

In 1986, she became a lecturer in Spanish at the University of Nottingham. She has coordinated the International Commission for the Diffusion of Catalan Culture, in the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya.In 2010, she was conducting research on the at the National Archive of Catalonia. She writes in Catalan.

In 2019, she received the Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes, awarded by the association Òmnium Cultural.

A library in Mira-sol neighborhood of Sant Cugat del Vallès is named in her honor.

Selected works

Primers dies de 1968 (1968) Setembre 30 (prologado por Gabriel Ferrater, 1969) Vida privada (1972) Memòria (1979) A favor meu, nostre (1981) Berlin suite (1985) Homenatge a Walter Benjamin (1988) Les senyores-senyores ens els triem calbs (1988) Nessa: narracions (1988) Tria de poemes (1994) L'amor a Barcelona (1998) Fauna (1994) Barcelona, una nova ciutat europea (1995) Montserrat Roig: un retrat Maria Aurèlia Capmany: un retrat Frederica Montseny: un retrat El segle de les dones (2002) Virginia Woolf in the Midlands (Londres. Anglo-Catalan Society, 2004) Caterina Albert: un retrat, amb fotografies de Pilar Aymerich (Institut Català de la Dona, 2005) Mercè Rodoreda i el seu temps (2005) Donasses. Protagonistes de la Catalunya moderna (2006). Poemes 1969-2007: Antologia (Editorial Meteora, 2007) Animals i plantes (Editorial Meteora, 2010) França 1939. La cultura catalana exiliada (2010). L'exili violeta (Editorial Meteora, 2010) A favor nostre. Antologia de poemes i pròleg a cura d'Àngels Gregori (Godall Edicions, 2019)