Núria Pradas i Andreu

Núria Pradas i Andreu (born 1 September 1954) is a Spanish Catalan philologist and writer. She began her literary career in the field of children's and youth literature. She is the author of an extensive literary production in this field as well as in adult fiction.

Biography Núria Pradas i Andreu was born in Barcelona, 1 September 1954, in neighborhood of El Poblenou. Her love of reading led her to study Catalan Philology at the University of Barcelona, graduating in 1980. Immediately, she began working there as a Catalan Language and Literature teacher. It was in Sant Feliu de Llobregat, where she lived for a long time, that her career began in amateur theatre, specifically in the company, which served as an experience for her to later direct youth theater groups and also to write her own plays. She also collaborated with Borràs in the theater group L'Ull de Bou of Sant Esteve Sesrovires.

From theater, she moved on to narrative and in 1995, she published her first book, Sol d'hivern, with which she began her career in children's and youth literature. In 2012, she was awarded the for Sota el mateix cel. In 2014, she published her first novel for adults, La Noia de la Biblioteca, which was followed by Somnis a mida (2016), translated into more than ten languages, and L'aroma del temps (2018).

In 2020, she won the Ramon Llull Novel Award with Tota una vida per recuerdo, a novel set in the U.S. during the 1930s, focused on the world of cartoons. Among her latest youth novels, can be noted, Ella (2020) and El cant del cigne (2022), while her latest novel for an adult audience is La vida secreta de Sylvia Nolan (Ed. Fate, 2022).

Awards and honours

Premio Ferran Canyameres for Parella de Dames (1996) Premio Carlemany (2012) 1995: L'extraordinària píndola rosa, Ed. Cruïlla 1996: La batalla de la sopa, Ed. Baula 1996: Un estiu amb l'Anna, Ed. Cruïlla 1996: Posa una tieta Adela a la teva vida, Ed. Baula 1996: Parella de dames, Ed. Baula 1997: Algú ha vist en Puck?, Ed. Cruïlla 1998: Simfonia per a un segrest, Ed. Alfaguara 1998: La vareta Boja, Ed. Cruïlla 1998: La princesa Pomèlia, Ed. del Bullent 1998: La tieta Adela del Nil, Ed. Baula 1999: Laura, Ed. Cruïlla 1999: Els iungs, Ed. La Galera 1999: Ai, Antonia o t'has ficat?, Ed. Baula 2000: L'IJ a la recerca de la iaia perduda, Ed. Alfaguara 2000: Diaris de campaments, Ed. Casals 2000: L'Intrús, Ed. Cruïlla 2001: Embolic al món del no-res, Ed. La Galera 2002: La serpent de plomes, Ed. Cruïlla 2002: La tieta Adela a Nova York, Ed. Baula 2002: A carn, a carn!, Ed. La Galera 2003: La Pipa ha perdut la son, Ed. Cruïlla 2004: L'últim refugi, Ed. Alfaguara 2005: Això no mola, Escarola!, Ed. Barcanova 2005: Curs per a joves detectius, Ed. La Galera 2005: Curs per a joves genets de dracs, Ed. La Galera 2005: Manhattan, Ed. Baula 2006: Curs per a joves patges reials, Ed. La Galera 2006: Misteri al carrer de les Glicines, Ed. Bambú 2006: La tieta Adela a Sevilla, Ed. Baula 2006: Curs per a joves fades bones, Ed. La Galera 2006: Una nit de reis boja, Ed. La Galera 2007: Quina família!, Ed. La Galera 2008: Postals en sèpia, Ed. Planeta 2009: Paraules figurades, Ed. Barcanova. Col. “Mots Vius” 2009: Els secrets de la vida, Ara Editorial 2010: : La bruixeta Encantada i l'escombra Primmirada, Ed. Alfaguara 2010: Sant Jordi i el drac, Ed. Barcanova, Col. El Petit Univers 2010: Heka, un viatge màgic a Egipte. Ed. Bambú 2010: La colla de les mofetes, Ed. Barcanova 2011: Raidho, Ed. Bambú 2011: La tieta Adela a Venècia, Ed. Baula 2011: Lulú Pecas: Un secreto secretísimo, Ed. Medialive 2011: Lulú Pecas: Aventura en el colegio, Ed. Medialive 2011: Lulú Pecas: Lulú y su superequipo, Ed. Medialive 2011: Lulú Pecas: Un cumpleaños muy molón, Ed. Medialive 2012: : Lulú se pone estupenda, Ed. Medialive 2012. Koknom, Ed. Bambú 2014: Els desastrosos encanteris de la bruixa Serafina, Ed. Bambú 2014: Abril és nom de Primavera, Ed. Animallibres 2014: Felipe Qué Flipe y el Supermóvil, Ed. RBA 2014: Felipe qué Flipe en tierra de dinosaurios, Ed. RBA 2014: Black soul, Ed. Bambú 2016: La filla de l'argenter, Ed. Animallibres 2020: Ella, ed. Bambú 2022: El cant del cigne, ed. Bambú

Crossover literature (for all audiences) 2012: El perfum de les llimones, Món Abacus 2013: Sota el mateix cel, Ed. Columna 2014: Nebbia, Ed. Bromera 2020: La marca del lleó, Ed. Fanbooks (with Glòria Sabaté)

Novels 2014: La noia de la biblioteca, Ed. Columna 2016: Somnis a mida, Ed. Columna. 2017: La pintora del barret de palla, Ed. Edafós 2017: L'aroma del temps 2020: Tota una vida per recordar 2022: La vida secreta de la Sylvia Nolan

Translations 2009: Ferotge, el Cavernícola, Ed. La Galera (French translation) 2011: Dani Bocafoc (1 i 2), Ed. La Galera (Spanish translation) 2012: Vordak, L'Ultramalvat, Ed. La Galera (Spanish translation) 2012: L'inspector Gadget, Ed. La Galera 2012: Johnny Test, Ed. La Galera

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