Cèlia Suñol i Pla
| Cèlia Suñol i Pla | |
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 Portrait of Cèlia Suñol | |
| Born |
May 5, 1899. Barcelona |
| Died |
June 8, 1986 (aged 87) Ametlla del Vallès |
| Nationality | Catalan |
| Occupation | Writer. |
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| Spouse(s) |
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| Children | Antoni and Rosa |
| Awards | Premi Sant Jordi |
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Cèlia Suñol i Pla (Barcelona, May 5, 1899 – Ametlla del Vallès, June 8, 1986) was a Catalan writer.
Biography
Born in Barcelona in 1899, she was daughter of the politician Antoni Suñol i Pla and Antònia Pla i Manent.[1] After some years of childhood and adolescence of formation and stability, his parents's deaths marked a point of inflection in his life. On 1921 she got ill by tuberculosis and travelled to Switzerland to find a better cure. There she knew Kaj Hansen, with who she married in Denmark on 1922. A year after they went back together to Catalonia, and his son Antoni was born. On 1929 Hansen died. Later Cèlia Suñol married with Joaquim Figuerola, and on 1931 she had a daughter, Rosa. On 1932 she joined the Ministry of Culture of the Generality of Catalonia, as a secretary. Figuerola died in 1945. Two years after, she won the Joanot Martorell novel award, currently knwon as Premi Sant Jordi, with her novel Primera part. On 1950 she published L'home de les fires i altres contes. She went blind at sixty five and died on 1986 at the age of 87 years.[2]
Work published
- 1947 – Primera part, Barcelona, Aymà. Republish on 2104 without francoism censorship of firs edition.[3]
- 1950 – L'home de les fires i altres contes, Barcelona, Selecta.
Prizes and recognitions
- Premi Joanot Martorell of novel 1947 for Primera part.