ANTONIA VICENS WRITER OF THE MONTH
Antònia Vicens i Picornell (Santanyí, 1941) is the writer of the month for December at the Eivissa Municipal Library on the occasion of its 80 anniversary.After spending her youth working as a hotel secretary during the summers, and study languages and stenography, the Mallorcan author began her literary career with the compilation of stories Banc de fusta (1968), Cantonigrós Award in 1965.
En el año 1967 he won the Sant Jordi prize with his book 39º a l’ombra (1968), a success that placed her fully in the Catalan literary panorama. The novel was translated into German and Spanish and had several reissues.. Later he published the novels Material de fulletó (1971) and The Feast of All the Dead (1974).
en 1971 He married and for a time continued working in various hotels. She also had other jobs as a home-based book seller., participated in a cooking recipe show on the radio, She worked as a secretary in a law firm and opened a craft store.
During the decade of the 80, continued writing and publishing: first communion; The Holy; Miles of tulle for a small corpse; Strawberry ice cream, Dry land. He also collaborated in the cultural supplements of several newspapers.: He wrote stories in the newspaper Avui and childhood memories in Diario de Mallorca, entre otros.
en 1993 published with Josep M. Lompart Private vocabulary, (childhood memories published in Diario de Mallorca) y, Later, stories for young audiences L'àngel de la lluna (1997) and Too Shy to Tie (1998).
el año 1998 she was acting president of the Association of Writers in the Catalan Language, of which she was the vice president in the Islands of 1997 A 2004. His career was recognized on 1999 with the Cross of St. George of the Government of Catalonia, and in 2004 with the Ramon Llull award from the Government of the Balearic Islands. Since 2000 She lives retired in her house in Terreno and dedicates her time to writing and reading.. From time to time he has published opinion articles in the Diari de Balears.
His literary career was completed with the novels Febre alta (1998), When a man falls in love (1998), Away from the train (2002), perfect nails (2007) and Soul of a Dog (2011). En el año 2005 His stories appeared collected in a single volume, titled All the stories. en 2009 made his first foray into the poetic genre with the publication of the compilation Lovely, and continued publishing poetry with the titles Sota el paraigua el crit (2013) and Cold in the eyes (2015).
His fourth collection of poems, All the horses (2017), received the Cavall Verd Josep Maria Llompart Award from the AELC for the best collection of poems of the year in the Catalan language. en 2016 The book-interview about his life and work was published, THE TIME OF MARCEL PROUST. Too much debt with flowers, by Sebastià Portell. That same year she was named honorary member of the Association of Writers in Catalan Language and her career was recognized with the National Culture Award from the Generalitat of Catalonia., the Gold Medal of the Palma City Council, the Gold Medal from the Santanyí City Council and the Josep M award. Llompart of the Balearic Cultural Work.
en 2017 was commissioned to write the official poem for World Poetry Day by the Institution of Catalan Letters, which was translated into twenty languages.
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