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Occupation
  
poet, translator

Children
  
Miquel Bofill

Role
  
Poet

Name
  
Montserrat i

Years active
  
1963–2014


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Full Name
  
Montserrat Abello i Soler

Born
  
February 1, 1918 (
1918-02-01
)
Tarragona

Died
  
September 9, 2014, Barcelona, Spain

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Montserrat Abelló i Soler (February 1, 1918 – September 9, 2014) was a Catalan poet and translator. During the Spanish Civil War, she lived in exile in France, England and Chile.

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English to Catalan

A graduate in English philology, Abelló i Soler has produced a number of notable translations into Catalan of English writers and poets including:

  • Sylvia Plath
  • Dylan Thomas
  • E.M. Forster
  • Iris Murdoch
  • Mohsen Emadi

    • Catalan to English

    Abelló i Soler has also produced translations from Catalan to English of writers including:

  • Salvador Espriu
  • Mercè Rodoreda
  • Maria Àngels Anglada
  • Maria Mercè Marçal
  • Olga Xirinacs Díaz

    • Written works

    Abelló i Soler has also written a number of books of poetry:

  • Vida diària ("Daily life") (1963)
  • Vida diària: Paraules no dites ("Daily Life: Words not said") (1981)
  • El blat del temps ("The Wheat of Time") (1986)
  • Foc a les mans ("Fire in Hand") (1990)
  • L’arrel de l’aigua ("The Root of Water") (1995)
  • Son màscares que m’emprovo ("Masks of Sleep that I Try") (1995)
  • Dins l’esfera del temps ("In the Sphere of Time") (1998) which won the Gold Critica Serra prize in 1999.
  • Asseguda escrivint ("Seated Writing") (2004)
  • Memoria de tu i de mi ("Memories of You and Me") (2006)

    • In 2002, her poetry was compiled in Al cor de les paraules: obra poètica 1963-2002 (I"n the Heart of Words: Poetic Works 1963-2002"), which in 2003 won several Catalan literary prizes.

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    She has also contributed to anthologies of writing and poetry:

  • Cares a la finestra: 20 dones poetes de parla anglesa del segle XX ("Faces in the Window: 20 English Women Poets of the 20th century") (1993)
  • Cartografies del desig: Quinze escriptores i el seu món ("Cartography of Desire: Fifteen writers and their world") (1998)
  • Memoria de l’aigua: Onze escriptores i el seu món ("Memories of Water: Eleven writers and their world") (1999)
  • Paisatge emergent ("Emergent Landscape") (1999).

    • Awards

  • "Creu de Sant Jordi" (the Cross of Saint George) for her work as a translator (1998).
  • "Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes" (Catalan Letters Lifetime Achievement Award) (2008).

    • References

    Montserrat Abelló i Soler Wikipedia
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