MARIA ANTONIA OLIVER, ESSENTIAL FIGURE IN CATALAN LITERATURE

This week, The world of literature in general, and of the Balearic literature and in Catalan in particular, It has been shocked by the death of Maria Antònia Oliver last Thursday, February 10.

MARIA ANTONIA OLIVER, Born in Manacor el Any 1946, She has been a very proliferous writer that I publish her first novel, Chronicles of a middle summer, With just twenty -three years, demonstrating his passion for literature from a young age. This outstanding Mallorcan writer has mainly cultivated the literary genre of the novel and the brief narrative, But he has also published, entre otros, Literary essay, plays and scripts, and has made translations into Catalan of such universally important authors as Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Jules Verne, Robert Louis Stevenson o Herman Melville. All his literary production has been in the Catalan language, Therefore, she is considered a defender of Catalan, having encouraged the creation of literature in this language and having more than demonstrated that the Catalan language has the potential to produce literature of the highest quality..

belonged, with her husband, the also writer Jaume Fuster, in the so-called "literary generation of the seventies", a generation of writers and writers characterized by disruptive concerns, with a new way of seeing things from both a social and cultural perspective. This generation aimed to have a relevant and avant-garde role in the Catalan literature of the time..

Maria Antònia Oliver made a prestigious name not only here, but all over the world, thanks to the translation of some of his works into English, the french, the italian, the spanish, German or Portuguese, that have reached many readers in Europe and even the United States. His literary relevance and importance earned him numerous awards.; between them, the Cross of Sant Jordi of the Government of Catalonia in 2007 for his outstanding literary career and the Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes on 2016. Además, was honorable partner of the Association of Writers in Catalan Language, founding member and first woman to be a member of the AELC.

By Maite Vallejo

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