Maria Antònia Oliver Cabrer

Maria Antònia Oliver with the poet, Antoni Albalat Salanova
Born	4 December 1946 Manacor, Balearic Islands
Language	Spanish, Catalan, Castilian
Nationality	Spanish
Genre	novel, short story, translator
Spouse	Jaume Fuster

Maria Antònia Oliver Cabrer (born December 4, 1946) is a Spanish writer of Catalan descent. She is a member of the Ofèlia Dracs collective. Her work has been translated into German, English, Spanish, Galician, French, Portuguese, and Russian.^{[1] [2]}

Life

Born in Manacor, Balearic Islands, she has been a resident of Barcelona since 1969. Oliver is known for her novels and short stories, and is also a Castilian and Catalan language translator. Her first work was published in 1970. While most of her work has been for adult readers, some is aimed at children and youth. In addition to novel and short stories, she has written plays (Negroni de ginebra ; 1991), screenplays, as well as stories for radio (Catalunya Ràdio) and television (TV3; TVE Catalunya). She has worked for El Correo Catalán, Diario de Mallorca, Última hora, and Diari de Barcelona. Writing in Catalan, many of her works have been translated into Castilian, German, English, Galician and Russian.^[3]

She is married to the writer Jaume Fuster.^[4] She has served as dean of Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (2001-2004).

Selected works

• Cròniques d'un mig estiu (1970)
• Cròniques de la molt anomenada ciutat de Montcarrà (1972)
• El vaixell d'Iràs i no Tornaràs (1976)
• Punt d'arròs (1979)
• Crineres de foc (1985)
• Estudi en lila (1985)
• Antípodes (1988)
• Joana E. (1992)
• El sol que fa l'ànec (1994)
• Amor de cans (1994)
• Tallats de lluna (2000)

Awards

• Prudenci Bertrana Prize
• 2001, Outstanding Achievement Award of the Llibre Setmana in Catalan
• 2003, Ramon Llull Prize, Balearic Government
• Finalist for the Sant Jordi Prize(1984) for Crineres de foc
• Prize for Catalan Literature of the Generalitat of Catalonia (1985) for the translation of Moby Dick
• Jaume Fuster Prize for Catalan Writers (2004)

References

1. "Oliver Cabrer, Maria Antònia" (in Spanish). Generalitat de Catalunya, Department de Cultura. 13 January 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
2. http://www.escriptors.cat/autors/oliverma/pagina.php?id_sec=15
3. "Maria Antònia Oliver Cabrer" (in Spanish). Diccionario de Escritores e Illustradores de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
4. "Maria Antònia Oliver". lletra.net. Retrieved 5 April 2014.

External links

• Maria Antònia Oliver at the Internet Movie Database