Ana Maria Moix

Ana María Moix Meseguer (Barcelona, April 12, 1947 - Barcelona, February 28, 2014) was a Spanish poet, novelist, short story writer, translator and editor.

She was the younger sister of fellow writer Terenci Moix (1942-2003), to whom she dedicated the last years of her own life trying to vindicate the depth and depth of her work.

Biography

He grew up on Joaquín Costa street, in the Raval. She studied Philosophy and Letters at the University of Barcelona, and was active in contemporary Spanish poetry, being one of the nine newest Spanish poets.

She gained notoriety when she was included —the only woman— in 1968 by José María Castellet in Nine Newest Spanish Poets, "the great poetic anthology that established, in a quite provocative and spectacular way, a new young poetry that rose up against the social, realistic and committed poetry that had been slowly and laboriously imposed throughout the harsh first post-war period in Spain".

Over the next five years, from 1969 to 1973, he published three collections of poems —Ballads of sweet Jim, Call me stone and No time for flowers—, which would later be reunited in In the image and likeness; two novels —Julia and Walter, why did you leave?—, a book of short stories —That redheaded boy I see every day—, a children's book —The marvelous hill of primitive ages—, a compilation of its articles —Twenty-four by twenty-four— and its first translation —Holy Week, by Louis Aragon—, in addition to winning its first prize.

During the 1970s, he published insightful interviews with writers on TeleXpres, literary conversations that stood out in the journalistic scene of the time.

Subsequently, he stopped publishing his own fiction for more than ten years, except for the children's book Los robots. Las penas (1982), until he reappeared with his second book of short stories, Dangerous Virtues, which won the City of Barcelona Award in 1985. Later he published another novel, Vals negro, and two collections of stories.

He translated dozens of books, mainly from French (Aragon, Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Amélie Nothomb, Françoise Sagan, among other authors).

She was part (1976-1979) of the team that published Vindicación Feminista magazine.

He directed the poetry and short story collections of the Plaza & Janes and Bruguera.

In 1997 she was one of the signatories of the Foro Babel manifesto.

Between 2006 and April 2010, she was the director of Editorial Bruguera.

He died on February 28, 2014 in Barcelona at the age of 66, a victim of cancer.

Awards

• Vizcaya Poetry Award 1970 by No time for flowers.
• Barcelona City Award 1985 by Dangerous virtues.
• Barcelona City Award 1995 by Black Vals.
• Cruz de San Jorge Award (2006).

Work

Poetry

• Ballads of the Sweet Jim, El bardo, 1969; with prologue of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.
• Call me Stone1969. First edition of bibliophile, with seven waterproofs of Miquel Vilá.
• No Time for Flowers, Lumen, Barcelona, 1971.
• No time for flowers and other stories, Lumen, Barcelona, 1972. Includes Call me Stone, No Time for Flowers and Homenaje a Bécquer.
• In image and likeness, Lumen, Barcelona, 1983, which collects its poetic production until then.

Prose

• Julia, novel, Seix Barral, Barcelona, 1970
• That red-headed guy I see every day, stories, Lumen S.A., Barcelona, 1971
• Walter, why did you leave?, Barral Editores, 1973
• The wonderful hill of primitive age, infantile literature, Lumen S.A., Barcelona, 1973
• Twenty-fourarticles, 1973
• Mara Girona: a free paintingrehearsal, 1977
• Robots. Sentences, infantile literature, Bruguera, Barcelona, 1982
• Dangerous virtues, stories, Plaza y Janés, Editores S.A., Barcelona, 1985
• Miguelón, infantile literature, 1986
• The fog and other accounts, Alfaguara, Madrid, 1988
• Black Vals, novel, Lumen S.A., Barcelona, 1994
• The Baix Llobregat, 29 municipis i un riu. BarcelonaGuide, 1995
• Missing illustriousbiography, 1996
• 24 hours with the divine Gauche, Lumen S.A., Barcelona, 2002 (written in 1971)
• The beloved cornerstories, 2002
• From my real life I know nothing2002, 10 stories

Essay

• Personal Manifesto, 2011