1. Nuria Amat is the recipient of the 2011 Ramon Llull Novel Award.
10 Facts About Nuria Amat
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Nuria Amat gained a degree in Spanish studies, then completed a doctorate in information science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
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Nuria Amat's first non-scholarly published work was a tome of poetry called Pan de boda.
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Nuria Amat went on to write essays, short story collections and novels in Spanish.
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Nuria Amat was part of the Barcelona literary scene of the 1970s and 1980s, maintaining friendships with such writers as Juan Goytisolo, Carlos Fuentes, Josep Maria Castellet or Enrique Vila-Matas.
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Nuria Amat's books have been translated to Arabic, English, French, Italian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Czech and Polish.
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Apart from writing in Spanish, Nuria Amat has been published in Catalan.
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Nuria Amat has written a theatre play called Pat's Room and a novel Amor i guerra about the assassination of Leon Trotsky by Ramon Mercader, with whom she is distantly related from the mother's side.
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Nuria Amat started writing notes for the novel in both Catalan and Spanish, but then decided to write the whole book in Catalan, later creating a Spanish version.
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Nuria Amat has been vocal about rejecting the normalization of the Catalan language carried out by the Generalitat de Catalunya.