Nuria Amat Noguera, spelled in Catalan as Núria Amat i Noguera (born 1950) is a Spanish writer and librarian who writes in Spanish and Catalan. She is the recipient of the 2011 Ramon Llull Novel Award.
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| Born | 1950 (age 73–74) Barcelona, Spain |
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| Alma mater | Autonomous University of Barcelona (PhD) |
| Notable awards | Ramon Llull Novel Award 2011 Amor i guerra |
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Early life and education
editNuria Amat was born in 1950, in Barcelona.[1] She gained a degree in Spanish studies,[1] then completed a doctorate in information science[1][2] at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.[3]
Career
editAmat wrote some studies on library science,[1] worked as a librarian, and taught library science at the University of Barcelona.[2] Her first non-scholarly published work was a tome of poetry called Pan de boda (1979).[1] Amat went on to write essays,[3] short story collections and novels in Spanish.[1] She was part of the Barcelona literary scene of the 1970s and 1980s, maintaining friendships with such writers as Juan Goytisolo, Carlos Fuentes, Josep María Castellet or Enrique Vila-Matas.[4]
Amat's literary work is often complex in form and focused on the processes of reading and writing, frequently employing metafiction.[2] Her body of work includes the novel Todos somos Kafka, which both reflects on the literary tradition and its own structure;[2] it was called "magnificent" by Carlos Fuentes in El País.[5] In 2002, Amat won the Premio Ciudad de Barcelona for Reina de América[3] – a novel about a Spanish woman writer living through a civil war in Colombia.[6] Her books have been translated to Arabic, English, French, Italian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish,[3] Czech[7] and Polish.[8]
Apart from writing in Spanish, Amat has also been published in Catalan. She has written a theatre play called Pat's Room (1997)[1] and a novel Amor i guerra about the assassination of Leon Trotsky by Ramón Mercader, with whom she is distantly related from the mother's side.[9] The novel brought her the Ramon Llull Novel Award 2011.[1][9] 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.[9]
Amat has been vocal about rejecting the normalization of the Catalan language carried out by the Generalitat de Catalunya.[1]
Literary works
editFiction
edit- Narciso y Armonía, 1982[1]
- El ladrón de libros, 1988
- Amor Breve, 1990
- Monstruos, 1991
- Todos somos Kafka, 1993
- Viajar es muy difícil, 1995
- La intimidad, 1997
- El país del alma, 1999
- El siglo de las mujeres, 2000
- Reina de América, 2001; Eng. edition: Queen Cocaine, trans. by Peter Bush, 2005[6]
- Deja que la vida llueva sobre mí, 2007
- Amor i guerra, 2011[10]
- Amor y Guerra, 2012[9]
- El sanatorio, 2016[11]
Poetry
edit- Pan de boda, 1979
- Amor infiel, 2004
- Poemas impuros, 2008[10]
Other
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Núria Amat i Noguera". Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
- ^ a b c d Amago, Samuel (2006). "Narrative Schizophrenia and the Anxiety of Influence in the Novels of Nuria Amat". True Lies: Narrative Self-consciousness in the Contemporary Spanish Novel. Bucknell University Press. pp. 95–99. ISBN 978-0-8387-5661-4.
- ^ a b c d "On Historical Memory: A Conversation between Nuria Amat and David Rieff". AS/COA. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
- ^ "Nuria Amat: "En Barcelona se discriminaba a los latinoamericanos que no pertenecían al 'boom'"". El Español (in Spanish). 2022-07-21. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
- ^ Fuentes, Carlos (2004-09-24). "La sombra dilatada de Kafka". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
- ^ a b "QUEEN COCAINE by Nuria Amat". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
- ^ Amat, Núria (2009). Ať na mě prší život (in Czech). Translated by Marie Jungmannová. Praha: Odeon. ISBN 978-80-207-1305-6. OCLC 1186995195.
- ^ "Kraina duszy / Nuria Amat ; przekł. Katarzyna Jachimska-Małkiewicz". Biblioteka Narodowa (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-03-23.
- ^ a b c d "Núria Amat gana el Premio Ramon Llull con una novela ambientada en la Barcelona de 1936". El País (in Spanish). 2011-02-03. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
- ^ a b "Amat, Nuria". www.escritores.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-23.
- ^ "Nueva novela de Nuria Amat: 'El sanatorio'". ED Libros (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-23.
- ^ Caballé, Anna (2022-08-06). "'Memorias de una mujer libre', una vida sin rodeos". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-23.