Olga Xirinacs Díaz

Who is Olga Xirinacs Díaz?

Olga Xirinacs Díaz is a Catalan writer and piano teacher. During her literary career, she has written poetry, drama, tales and essays. She was born in Tarragona, where she still lives and works.

Xirinacs often writes in the daily press: her articles have been published in La Vanguardia, Avui, and Foc Nou, amongst others. She has given narrative courses in the Aula de Lletres and in Barcelona's Pompeu Fabra University.

Some of her books have won prestigious Catalan literature awards, including the Sant Jordi, Sant Joan, Josep Plà, Ramon Llull and the Carles Riba prizes.

She has published more than three hundred tales, 250 for adults and around 50 for children. She is the only female “Mestra en Gai Saber” of the Jocs Florals after Mercè Rodoreda Gurgui. In 1990, the Generalitat de Catalunya awarded her the Creu de Sant Jordi. She is a member of Association of Catalan-Language Writers.