Núria Albó

Núria Albó i Corrons (born 1930) is a Spanish writer, teacher, and politician. She is a Creu de Sant Jordi and Premi Vila de'Arenys laureate.

Early life Albó was born on 2 July 1930 in La Garriga near Barcelona.

Albó supplemented her education by reading novels by Hans Christian Andersen and those illustrated by the Spanish Lola Anglada and the English Arthur Rackham. Even as a child, she tried to read books that were written in the language Catalan and this partnered her first experiments with writing. In 1962 she published a poetry collection with La mà pel front, releasing another ten years later entitled Díptic with Maria Àngels Anglada, with a foreword by Marià Manent and illustrations by Ricard Creus.

A teacher for 20 years, she was elected mayor of La Garriga in 1979. Her 1980 novel, Desencis ("Disillusion") was awarded the Premi Vila de'Arenys. A political novel set during elections, her characters are described as "contradictory" and "tender, intelligent and sometimes lucid, but at the same time conformist and passive." She is a contemporary of Maria Àngels Anglada, Maria Aurèlia Capmany, Clementina Arderiu, Rosa Leveroni, and Maria Beneyto.

Personal life Albó is married to Guillermo Serra with whom she has four children, Mireia, Guillem, Oriol, and Judit.

Selected works

Poems La mà pel front (1962) Díptic, (1972) with Maria Àngels Anglada. L’encenedor verd, (1979)

Children's books El fantasma Santiago (1979)

Novels Fes-te repicar (1979) Agapi mou (1980) Desencís (1980) Tranquil, Jordi, tranquil (1983) Grills (1983)