Editing Mercè Rodoreda (section)

{{Short description|Catalan novelist and poet}}
{{family name hatnote|Rodoreda|Gurguí|lang=Catalan}}
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| birth_place   = [[Barcelona]], [[Catalonia]], Spain
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| death_place   = [[Girona]], [[Catalonia]], Spain
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| notableworks  = [[The Time of the Doves]], [[Mirall trencat]], [[Aloma]]
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| awards        = '''[[Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes]]''' (1980)<br>[[Premi Joan Crexells de narrativa]] (1937)<br>[[Mestre en Gai Saber]] (1949)
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'''Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí''' ({{IPA|ca|məɾˈsɛ ruðuˈɾɛðə}}; 10 October 1908 – 13 April 1983) was a [[Catalans|Catalan]] novelist, who wrote in [[Catalan language|Catalan]].

She is considered the most influential contemporary Catalan language writer,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mercè Rodoreda, vint anys després|url=http://www.traces.uab.cat/tracesbd/avui/av00767c.pdf|url-status=dead|access-date=2021-07-18|archive-date=2022-12-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221223230652/http://www.traces.uab.cat/tracesbd/avui/av00767c.pdf}}</ref> as evidenced by the references of other authors to her work and the international repercussion, with translations into more than thirty languages.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-04-19|title=Mercè Rodoreda|url=http://www.escriptors.cat/autors/rodoredam/obra.php#1326|access-date=2021-07-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160419023218/http://www.escriptors.cat/autors/rodoredam/obra.php#1326|archive-date=2016-04-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=www.mercerodoreda.cat|url=http://www.mercerodoreda.cat/traduccions}}</ref>

She also has been called the most important Catalan female novelist of the postwar period.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Porras|first=Marina|title=Mercè Rodoreda: creating the world again|url=https://www.llull.cat/english/actualitat/actualitat_noticies_detall.cfm?id=37699&url=merce-rodoreda-creating-the-world-again.htm|website=Institut Ramon Llull}}</ref> Her novel ''La plaça del diamant'' ('The diamond square', translated as ''[[The Time of the Doves]]'', 1962) has become the most popular Catalan novel to date and has been translated into over 30 languages. Some critics consider it to be one of the best novels published in Spain after the [[Spanish Civil War]].<ref>{{cite news|last=García Márquez|first=Gabriel|title=''¿Sabe usted quién era Mercè Rodoreda?''|url=http://elpais.com/diario/1983/05/18/opinion/422056813_850215.html|work=[[El País]]|access-date=29 March 2014|author-link=Gabriel García Márquez|language=es|date=18 May 1983}}</ref>

After her death, one more of her artistic aspects was discovered, painting, which had remained in the background due to the importance that Rodoreda gave to writing:

{{blockquote|I write because I like to write. If it didn't seem like an exaggeration, I would say that I write to please myself. If others like what I write, the better. Perhaps it is deeper. Perhaps I write to affirm myself. To feel that I am ... And it's over. I have spoken of myself and essential things in my life, with a certain lack of measure. And excess has always scared me.<ref>Rodoreda, Mercè (julio 2008), p.36</ref>|Mercè Rodoreda, prologue of ''Mirall Trencat''}}