Montserrat Roig
| Montserrat Roig i Fransitorra | |
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June 13, 1946 Barcelona |
| Died | November 10, 1991 (aged 45) Barcelona |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Period | Late 20th century |
| Genre | Novels, short stories, essays |
| Notable awards |
Premi Victor Català for Molta roba i poc sabó... i tan neta que la volen (1970) Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la for El temps de les cireres (1976) Premi Crítica Serra d'Or for Els catalans als camps nazis (1978) Premi Nacional de Literatura Catalana d'assaig for L'agulla daurada (1986) |
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Montserrat Roig i Fransitorra (Catalan pronunciation: [munsəˈrat ˈrɔtʃ]; Barcelona, June 13, 1946 – November 10, 1991) was a Spanish writer of novels, short stories and articles.
Roig was born in 1946 into a liberal middle-class family in Barcelona's Eixample neighborhood, the sixth of seven children of lawyer and writer Tomàs Roig i Llop and Albina Fransitorra. She was born and lived most of her life on Bailén Street.
She began her schooling in 1951 at the Col·legi Mari del Diví Pastor, also on Bailén Street. At the age of 13, she enrolled at the Institut Montserrat, where she completed her pre-university education.
From 1961 to 1964, she studied at the Escola d'Art Dramàtic Adrià Gual (Adrià Gual School of Dramatic Arts), appearing as an actress in multiple productions. She earned a degree in philosophy and letters from the University of Barcelona in 1968 and a doctorate in 1970.
In 1970, Roig won the Víctor Català prize for Molta roba i poc sabó... i tan neta que la volen, a compilation of short stories, and began to dedicate herself to writing literature. She began a literary cycle composed of works such as Ramona adéu (1972), which portrays three generations of women – grandmother, mother and daughter – who live their own stories with key moments in Catalan history as a background, or El temps de les cireres (1977), starring the same characters, for which Roig received the "Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la" in 1976.
L'hora violeta (1980) is the novel which culminates her feminist positioning. From then on, her novels took a different turn. Later, she published L'òpera quotidiana (1982), La veu melodiosa (1987) and a compilation of short stories with the title El cant de la joventut (1989). The last of her publications was Digues que m'estimes encara que sigui mentida (1991), where she conveys personal poetry as a literary will.
Montserrat Roig was a member of the Association of Catalan Language Writers (Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana) and vice-president of its Junta Territorial del Principat de Catalunya (Territorial Committee of the Catalan Principality) (1989–1990).
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