Background
She was born at 340 carrer de Balmes, Barcelona, in 1908.
She was born at 340 carrer de Balmes, Barcelona, in 1908.
She is considered by many to be the most important Catalan novelist of the postwar period. Her novel Louisiana plaça del diamant ("The diamond square", translated as "The Time of the Doves", 1962) has become the most acclaimed Catalan novel of all time and since the year it was published for the first time, it has been translated into over 30 languages. lieutenant is also considered by many to be one of the best novels published in Spain after the Spanish Civil War.
Her parents were Andreu Rodoreda, from Terrassa and Montserrat Gurguí, from Maresme.
At the start of the Spanish Civil War, she worked for the Generalitat de Catalunya, the autonomous Government of Catalonia. She was exiled in France and later Switzerland, where in 1957 she broke her silence with the publication of her book Twenty-Two short stories, which earned her the Víctor Català Prize.
In the 1970s, she returned to Romanyà de la Selva in Catalonia and finished the novel Mirall trencat (Broken Mirror) in 1974. In 1998 a literature prize was instituted in her name: the Mercè Rodoreda prize for short stories and narratives.
The library in Platja d"Aro is named in her honor.
She died in Girona of liver cancer, and was interred in the cemetery of Romanyà.
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She was made a Member of Honour of the Associació d"Escriptors en Llengua Catalana, the Association of Writers in Catalan Language.
