Núria Añó

Who is Núria Añó?

Núria Añó is a Catalan writer and novelist. She lived in Mollerussa until she was nineteen. She studied Catalan Philology and German Language and today resides in Lleida where she works as both a writer and a translator.

Añó started writing tales at a young age and published her first story in 1990. After that some of her short stories have been published in anthology books. In 1996 she was awarded the 18th City of Almenara Joan Fuster Prize for Fiction. The short story Presage, written in 2005, is translated into English. Another of her short stories 2066. Comença l'etapa de correcció was translated in 2006 into Spanish, French, English, German, Italian and Polish.

Her first novel Els nens de l'Elisa was third among the finalists for the 24th Ramon Llull Prize for Catalan literature, the most relevant literary award in Catalan language. L'escriptora morta has been published in 2008 and Núvols baixos, in 2009. La mirada del fill, published in 2012, is her most recent novel.