Maria Mercè Roca

Maria Mercè Roca i Perich

in 2012[1]
Born (1958-07-19) July 19, 1958
Portbou
Occupation Writer

Maria Mercè Roca i Perich (b. Portbou, Spain, July 19, 1958) is a Catalan writer and politician. She was deputy to the Parliament of Catalonia for Republican Left of Catalonia, and currently serves as a councillor at the City Council of Girona for the same party.

Biography

At age 16, Roca moved to Girona, where she ended up establishing her residence. Although she did not finish her studies on Catalan Philology, she worked for many years as a Catalan teacher. In the mid-1980s, she rose in the Catalan cultural panorama when she was awarded the Víctor Català prize. She continued her literary activity with a number of tales, novels and also a script for the TV series Secrets de família, broadcast by TV3. Her career has always had a lot of success, both with literary prizes and translations into several languages, including Spanish, Basque, French, German and Dutch.

Roca is vice-president of the Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana.[2]

She is always been active in politics –she was deputy at the Parliament of Catalonia, where she was President of the Culture Commission (2007-2010)[3]– for Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) party between 2003 and 2010.

She was a candidate to the City council of Girona for (ERC) at the Spanish municipal elections, 2015, where ERC got 4 councillors, among which Roca was one of them.

Roca was one of the promoters of the platform Sobirania i Progrés.[3]

Work

Plaque with Maria Mercè Roca's signatura, at the foot of the Monument to the Book in Barcelona

Short stories

Novels

Non-fiction

Prizes

Notes

  1. 1 2 Maria Mercè Roca al Casal, 2012, Televisió Cardedeu, Retrieved 20 April 2016
  2. "La junta". Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Maria Mercè Roca". Retrieved 3 March 2015.

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