Isabel-Clara Simó
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Isabel-Clara Simó at the Setmana del Llibre en Català, in Sant Cugat, 2009
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April 4, 1943 Alcoi (Spain) |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist, politician |
| Notable awards | Premi Víctor Català (1978) Premi Andròmina de narrativa (2001) Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la (2003) Premi de la Crítica dels Escriptors Valencians d'assaig (2004) Premi de Novel·la Ciutat d'Alzira (2007) Premi Trajectòria (2009) Premi Jaume Fuster dels Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (2013) Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes (2017) |
Isabel-Clara Simó i Monllor (1943) is a Spanish journalist and writer born in the town of Alcoi located in the Valencian Community. She is considered one of the most important writers in the Catalan language.
Simó has been awarded several prizes, including the Premi Sant Jordi in 1993. As a journalist, she was the director of Canigó magazine and has a daily column in the newspaper Avui. She was a delegate of the Culture Department of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Isabel-Clara Simó is BSc+MSc on Philosophy for the Universitat de València and Journalism, and PhD on Romance Philology. She taught at Bunyol and afterwards at the IES Ramon Muntaner of Figueres, town where her kids were born, and at the IES Sant Josep de Calasanç of Barcelona. She turned to journalism in 1972 as a director of the weekly Canigó and collaborated in a regular basis in several media. She has created in her tales and novels a number of complex characters who have conflictive relationships, such as La Nati (1991), Raquel (1992), those from Històries perverses (1992) or those from T'imagines la vida sense ell? (2000). Some works as Júlia (1983) or D'Alcoi a Nova York (1987) have been set on Alcoi, her birthplace.
She was awarded the Sant Jordi prize in 1993, for La salvatge. She was deputy of Books for the Departament de Cultura of the Generalitat de Catalunya. In 1999 she received the Creu de Sant Jordi, for her career. The collection Dones (1997) was adapted to the cinema in 2000. More recently, she published L'home que volava en el trapezi (2002) and her collection of articles at the journal Avui, titled En legítima defensa. She has also had a great success, both from critics and audience, for her theatre piece Còmplices, taken to the scenarios by Pep Cortès.
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