#mercè rodoreda

theshatterednotes:

Mercè Rodoreda, Catalonian novelist, dramatist and poet

whilereadingandwalking:

When I went to Barcelona, it was important to me to read books in Catalan. It involved a fair amount of research, because there aren’t nearly as many books available in English translation from Catalan as I would like. So now, I’ve brought all those favorites—including novels by Carmen Laforet, Jordi Puntí, and Mercè Rodoreda—into one fantastic list for Book Riot. Dive into literature written in Catalan, a language that was once banned throughout Spain but has experienced a tremendous resurgence—the language of Barcelona.