Núria Añó is a Catalan/Spanish writer, a translator and a regular translator at conferences and symposia, where she gives papers on literary creation, films, cities or authors like Elfriede Jelinek, Patricia Highsmith, Salka Viertel, Alexandre Dumas, Greta Garbo, Franz Werfel or Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) at University of Lleida (UdL), Tunis University, University of Jaén (UJA), International University of Andalucía (UNIA), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC-Madrid), Sysmän Kirjasto Library in Finland, Shanghai Writers' Association (SWA), Fudan University in China, East China Normal University, Sinan Mansion, Instituto Cervantes in Shanghai, Conrad Festival in Poland, Massolit Books, Baza or Instituto Cervantes in Krakow, also in libraries, secondary schools or in higher education. She also acts as a juror for international competitions.
Some of her novels, short stories and essays are published and translated into Spanish, French, English, Italian, German, Polish, Chinese, Latvian, Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Arabic and Romanian.
Her first novel published, Els nens de l'Elisa (Omicron, 2006), was third among the finalists for the 24th Ramon Llull Prize, one of the most prestigious Prizes for Catalan Literature, awarded by Editorial Planeta. L'escriptora morta ([The Dead Writer, 2020] Omicron) was published in 2008; Núvols baixos ([Lowering Clouds, 2020] Omicron), in 2009; La mirada del fill (Abadia) in 2012; El salón de los artistas exiliados en California, [The Salon of Exiled Artists in California] in 2020.
Her writing focus on the characters' psychology, generally antiheroes. The characters are the most important in her books, much more than the topic, due to "an introspection, a reflection, not sentimental, but feminine". Her novels cover a multitude of topics, treat actual and socially relevant problems such as injustices or poor communication between people and frequently, the core of her stories remains unexplained. Añó asks the reader to discover the "deeper meaning" and to become involved in the events presented.
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Un relato muy interesante y pienso aun en estos tiempos muy actual, ya que en mis ojos no hemos avanzado mucho en la cuestión de la aceptación de "los sentimientos interpersonales" en general.
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Es una obra dirigida a quienes les gusta leer y se dejan absorber por la lectura.
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Su lectura es una invitación a la reflexión en un mundo donde la banalidad ejerce su imperio.
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Tercera finalista del Premio Ramon Llull de novela
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La novela constituye una de las grandes promesas de la narrativa catalana contemporánea.
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