Montserrat Sabater Bacigalupi

Montserrat Sabater Bacigalupi (Barcelona, 4 May 1940 – 3 April 2020) was a Spanish publisher.

Biography

She began to work in the publishing sector, in her youth, at the beginning of the 1960s, working for publisher Carlos Barral. She collaborated with him in the Editorial Seix Barral, where she was given directing tasks, and together with Jaime Salinas Bonmatí she launched the Formentor Awards, during the years 1959–1962. Among the participants of the first edition of the Formentor Awards, in 1959, were Vicente Aleixandre, Dámaso Alonso, Gerardo Diego, Carles Riba, Josep Vicenç Foix, Blas de Otero, Juan Goytisolo, Carlos Barral, Gabriel Ferrater and Jaime Gil de Biedma.

In 1984, working for publisher Josep Maria Castellet, she joined the Edicions 62 team to take charge of the public relations and communication department, until her retirement in 2003. Later she collaborated with Castellet by ordering, classifying and filing all his personal collection of documents, photographs, books, pictures, etc.

She had three children: Isabel, Anna and Jordi.