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
OccupationWriter, novelist, essayist, biographer
LanguageCatalan, Spanish
Genresocial 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.

Style

Añó's writing style is very ambitious and risky, the author delves into the exploration of the contemporary individual,[6] it focuses on the psychology of her characters, generally antiheroes avoiding Manichaeism.[7] "The characters are the most important" in her books, "much more than the topic",[8] due to "an introspection, a reflection, not sentimental, but feminine".[9] Although her novels cover a multitude of topics, treat actual and socially relevant problems, injustices and poor communication between people. Frequently, the core of her stories remains unexplained and Núria Añó asks the reader to discover the "deeper meaning"[10] and to become involved in the events presented.

Awards

In 1996 she was awarded the 18th City of Almenara Joan Fuster Prize for Fiction. In 2016 she was distinguished by the culture association Nuoren Voiman Liitto in Sysmä, Finland. Later, she won a grant at the Shanghai Writing Program, in Shanghai, China. In 2017 she was distinguished by the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators in Visby, Sweden. Late in the fall, by International Writer's and Translators' Center of Rhodes in Greece. In 2018 she was selected for the residency Krakow UNESCO City of Literature[11] in Poland and she won the fourth international writing award 2018 Shanghai Get-Together. In 2019 she was distinguished by IWTH in Ventspils, Latvia.

Bibliography

Novels
  • Els nens de l'Elisa (Elisa's Children); Omicron 2006 ISBN 978-84-96496-26-2
  • L'escriptora morta (The Dead Writer); Omicron 2008 ISBN 978-84-96496-65-1
  • Núvols baixos (Lowering Clouds, 2020); Omicron 2009 ISBN 978-84-92544-28-8
  • La mirada del fill (The son's Gaze); Abadia 2012 ISBN 978-84-96847-77-4

Biographies
  • El salón de los artistas exiliados en California: Salka Viertel acogió en su exilio a actores, intelectuales prominentes y personas anónimas huidas del nazismo (2020) ISBN 9780463996102 ISBN 9781393594420(ebook) ISBN 1658631633 ISBN 9781658631631 (paperback)

Books translated into English
Year Title ISBN
2020 The Dead Writer ISBN 9781071533307 (ebook)
2020 Lowering Clouds ISBN 9781071539446 (ebook)
2020 The Salon of Exiled Artists in California ISBN 9780463206126 (eBook) ISBN 979-8647624079 (paperback)

Novels translated into other languages
  • The Dead Writer; 2020 ISBN 9781071533307 (eBook) (English)
  • Lowering Clouds; 2020 ISBN 9781071539446 (eBook) (English)
  • The Salon of Exiled Artists in California: Salka Viertel took in actors, prominent intellectuals and anonymous people in exile fleeing from Nazism; 2020 ISBN 9780463206126 (eBook) ISBN 979-8647624079 (paperback) (English)
  • La escritora muerta; 2018 ISBN 9780463101407 (ebook) ISBN 19-81078-95-9 ISBN 978-19-81078-95-0 (Spanish language)
  • La mirada del hijo; 2019 ISBN 9780463358542 (ebook) ISBN 17-90867-27-4 ISBN 978-17-90867-27-1 (Spanish language)
  • La scrittrice morta; 2018 ISBN 978-15-47542-71-0 (eBook) ISBN 978-15-47548-24-8 (paperback) (Italian)
  • Nuvole basse; 2018 ISBN 978-15-47560-49-3 (eBook) ISBN 978-15-47562-33-6 (paperback) (Italian)
  • Lo sguardo del figlio; 2019 ISBN 9781071521489 (eBook) ISBN 9781071524121 (paperback) (Italian)
  • A escritora morta; 2018 ISBN 978-15-47549-80-1 (eBook) ISBN 978-15-47553-38-9 (paperback) (Portuguese)
  • O Olhar do Filho; 2018 ISBN 978-15-47546-68-8 (eBook) ISBN 978-15-47548-70-5 (paperback) (Portuguese)
  • Nuvens baixas; 2019 ISBN 978-15-47589-38-8 (eBook) ISBN 978-15-47592-49-4 (paperback)(Portuguese)
  • L'écrivaine morte; 2018 ISBN 978-15-47559-88-6 (eBook) ISBN 978-15-47560-74-5 (paperback) (French)
  • Le regard du fils; 2019 ISBN 978-10-71501-09-2 (eBook) (Francés)ISBN 9781071503577 (paperback) (French)
  • De dode schrijfster; 2019 ISBN 978-15-47580-19-4 (eBook) ISBN 978-15-47583-07-2 (paperback) (Dutch)
  • De blik van de zoon; 2020 ISBN 9781071534496 (eBook) (Dutch)
  • Tiefe Wolken; 2019 ISBN 9781071520925 (eBook) ISBN 9781071524022 (paperback) (German)
  • Die tote Schriftstellerin; 2019 ISBN 9781071521731 (eBook) ISBN 9781071524190 (paperback) (German)
  • Der Blick des Sohnes; 2019 ISBN 9781071504239 (eBook) ISBN 9781071511343 (paperback) (German)
  • TO ΒΛΕΜΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΓΙΟΥ; 2019 ISBN 9781071518755 (eBook) ISBN 9781071523421 (paperback) (Greek)
  • Η Νεκρή Συγγραφέας; 2020 ISBN 9781071526521 (eBook) ISBN 9781071530443 (paperback) (Greek)

Short stories
  • Lluvia de primavera, La República Literaria 1991.
  • Dones i Literatura a Lleida, Ajuntament de Lleida, 1997 (collective book).
  • VIII Concurs de Narrativa Mercè Rodoreda, Ràdio Molins de Rei, 1997 (collective book).
  • Estrenes, Universitat de Lleida, 2005 (collective book).
  • 2066. Beginning the age of correction, Cafebabel, Paris, 2006.
  • Escata de drac, Ajuntament de Lleida, 2012 (collective book).
  • Fábula, núm. 35, Univ. of La Rioja, 2013 (collective book).
  • Issue 3. Grief, When Women Waken, 2014. (collective book).
  • Resonancias, no. 127, París, 2014. (collective book).
  • Letralia, Year XXI (2016);
  • Revista Narrativas, no. 43, 2016. (collective book).
  • April Issue, Nebula, 2017. (collective book).
  • Domuzime, no. 4, 2017. (collective book).
  • Revista Literaria Visor, no. 12, 2018. (collective book).

Essays
  • Des lettres et des femmes... La femme face aux défis de l'histoire, Peter Lang, 2013. (collective book)
  • Les romancières sentimentales: nouvelles approches, nouvelles perspectives, L'ull crític 17-18, Universitat de Lleida, 2014. (collective book).
  • Cien años del Genocidio Armenio: Un siglo de silencio, Editarx, 2016. (collective book).
  • L'art de l'adaptation: féminité et roman populaire, University of Lleida, 2016. (collective book).
  • Cine y Literatura, Editorial Letralia, 2017. (collective book).
  • The Mother Tongue in a Foreign Land, Shanghai Writers' Association, 2017. (collective book).
  • Exilios y otros desarraigos, Editorial Letralia, 2018. (collective book).
  • China Life magazine, no. 151, 2018. (collective book).
  • Shanghai Get-Together, 2018. (collective book).
  • Mémoires et écrits de femmes: La création féminine revisitée, L'Harmattan, 2019 (collective book).
  • Agapè. De l'amour dans le patrimoine littéraire, L'Harmattan, 2019 (collective book).

See also

References
  1. https://letralia.com/editorialletralia/especiales/exilios/2018/05/21/nuria-ano/ Salka Viertel: una vida en el exilio. Letralia, 21 de mayo de 2018.
  2. The short story "2066. Beginning the age of correction". Cafebabel, June 19, 2006. (in English)
  3. The short story "Presage". Fall 2013 Issue 3 – Grief, 2013. (in English)
  4. "Deu obres passen a la recta final del Premi Ramon Llull". Vilaweb, January 28, 2004.
  5. DD.AA.: Femme et Littérature Populaire. L'ull crític segona etapa 15-16, Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2012, p. 241
  6. Bakrim, Noury: El viaje real de La escritora muerta, de Núria Añó. Letralia, April, 22. 2020
  7. "Not, A.: Critic review of the book Els nens de l'Elisa, in: Ateneu, La Mañana, September 24, 2006, page 63.
  8. "Sáez, A.: Interview with the author, in: Segre, September 12, 2006.
  9. "Santa, A.: About the book Núvols baixos (Lowering Clouds, 2020), in the Public Library of Lleida: Segre", June 20, 2010.
  10. "La leridana Núria Añó narra la historia de una actriz en la madurez de su profesión". La Mañana, June 28, 2009.
  11. "Announcing the KUCL residency scholarship recipients". Kraków City of Literature, February 20, 2018.
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