Núria Añó

Núria Añó (Catalan: [ˈnuɾiə əˈɲo], Spanish: [ˈnuɾja aˈɲo]; born 1973 in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain) is a Catalan writer, a translator, and a speaker at conferences and symposia, where she gives papers on literary creation or authors like Elfriede Jelinek, Patricia Highsmith, Salka Viertel,[1] Franz Werfel, Karen Blixen or Alexandre Dumas, fils.

Núria Añó
Añó in 2009
Born	(1973-02-10) 10 February 1973 Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
Occupation	Writer, novelist, essayist, biographer
Language	Catalan, Spanish
Genre	social criticism
Website
nuriaanyo.com

Añó started writing tales at a young age and published her first story in 1990. After that some of her short stories have been published in internationals anthology books. Her fiction story 2066. Comença l'etapa de correcció (2066. Beginning the age of correction)[2] or Presage,[3] about domestic violence, both are translated into English. Also some articles and essays such as The Mother Tongue in Foreign Lands or about the city of Shanghai A Catalyst City for Creativity are translated into Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Chinese, Latvian or Dutch.

Her first novel Els nens de l'Elisa was third among the finalists for the 24th Ramon Llull Prize[4] for Catalan literature, one of the most relevant literary awards in Catalan language. L'escriptora morta (The Dead Writer, 2020) about the process of literary creation was published in 2008 and Núvols baixos (Lowering Clouds, 2020) about a bisexual mature actress with LGBT background among other plots such as Alzheimer's disease, in 2009. La mirada del fill, a novel about adoption, generational troubles between mothers and daughters and classic ballet dancer was published in 2012. Today, some of her novels are translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French or Dutch as well. According to several academic journals of literature, Añó's work is considered "one of the big promises of the contemporary narrative for Catalan Literature.".[5]

Her last work is a biography on Jewish scriptwriter and intellectual Salka Viertel El salon de los artistas exiliados en California (The Salon of Exiled Artists in California, 2020). It is the result of three years of research about the Berlin of the 1920s; the transition from silent to spoken film in Hollywood. Then, the rise of Hitler and what it meant for the Jewish condition; the exile of many European artists because of the Second World War. Later, the Cold War and the witch-hunt against communism.