Mercedes salisachs

Mercedes Salisachs Roviralta (Barcelona, September 18, 1916-ibid., May 8, 2014) was a Spanish writer.

Biography

Daughter of a wealthy Barcelona industrialist, Pedro Salisachs Jané, and Sofía Roviralta Astul, she received a careful and liberal-conservative upbringing. She studied commercial expertise at the School of Commerce and in 1935 married another wealthy industrialist from Casa Burés, also a commercial expert, who died in 1993. They had five children with him, the second of whom, Miguel, died in a car accident in France at just 21 years old, being the source of inspiration for one of his best-known novels, La gangrene, with which he won the Planeta Award in 1975.

During the Spanish Civil War, she took refuge with her family in San Sebastián.

She worked as editorial director of Plaza & Janes and as a decorator.

He wrote some romantic stories during his adolescence, although his first published novel -which he did not retract- was First Morning, Last Morning (1955), which he wrote under the pseudonym María Ecín. She suffered the intransigence of censorship during the Franco dictatorship. In 1956 (also during the Franco dictatorship) he won the City of Barcelona prize with the work A woman arrives at the town, and in 1983 the Ateneo de Sevilla prize with The volume of absence and in 2004 the Fernando Lara prize with The last labyrinth. She also has the Grand Cross of Alfonso X el Sabio (1999) to her credit.

With twenty grandchildren and a good number of great-grandchildren, her contribution to children's literature has also been important.

She was one of the longest-lived active writers in the world. She spoke five languages and Catalan was not among them.

He died on May 8, 2014 at the Teknon Medical Center in Barcelona at the age of 97.

Work

Novels

• San Marcial, 42
• Two worlds. Barcelona: P. Yuste, 1940
• The ones that stay. Barcelona: Youth S.A., 1942
• First morning, last morning. Barcelona: Planet, 1955.
• Intermediate road. Barcelona: Luis de Caralt, 1956. Finalist of the Fourth Planeta 1955 Prize
• A woman arrives in town. Barcelona: Planet, 1956.
• Beyond the rails. Barcelona: Luis de Caralt, 1957.
• Adam helicopter, 1957 (It was actually published in 1948 with the title Foehn and with the pseudonym A. Dan).
• Interrupted harvest. Barcelona: Planet, 1960.
• The yellow leaves station. Barcelona: Planet, 1963.
• Carratera Intermedia, 1963
• The decline and the cost. Barcelona: Planet, 1966.
• The last adventure. Barcelona: Planet, 1967.
• Confidential adage. Barcelona: Planet, 1973. Finalist of the 21st Planet Award 1973
• The gangrene. Barcelona: Planet, 1975. XXIV Planet Prize 1975
• Travel to Sodoma. Barcelona: Planet, 1977.
• The presence. Barcelona: Argos Vergara, 1979.
• The symphony of flies. Barcelona: Planet, 1982.
• The volume of absence. Barcelona: Planet, 1983.
• Be brief, please.1983. Rosa Navarro Award
• The Salmon Dance. Barcelona: Planet, 1985. Reissue; Madrid: Sekotia, 2008
• Mutant bacteria1996 The gangrene)
• The Secret of the Flowers. Barcelona: Plaza y Janés, 1997.
• The voice of the tree. Barcelona: Plaza y Janés, 1998.
• The clamors of silence. Barcelona: Plaza y Janés, 2000.
• The conversation. Editions B. Barcelona, 2002.
• From the Middle Dimension. Editions B, Barcelona, April 2003
• The last maze. Barcelona: Planet, 2004.
• Moonglasses. Barcelona: Planet, 2005.
• Between shadow and light. Barcelona: Editions B, 2007.
• Goodbye, Spain. Barcelona: Editions Martínez Roca, 2009. Winner of the Alfonso X El Sabio Historical Novel Award 2009
• Table Madrid: Books Libres, 2011
• I sing to life: Madrid: Clínica Universidad de Navarra, 2011
• The flow of empty nights Barcelona: Editions Martínez Roca, 2013.

Stories

• Known steps. Barcelona: Couple and Borrás, 1957
• The project and other accounts. Barcelona: Planet, 1978
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Ballesteros. Confederation Savings Banks, 1983. Finalist of the Hucha de Oro Award 1983

Others

• Betulia's heroine1948. Theatre
• The author prosecutes his work. Madrid: Editora Nacional, 1966. Conference
• The decoration. Editorial Nauta, 1969. Essay
• Demolishments: intimate chronicles of a salted time. Barcelona: Argos Vergara, 1981. Autobiography
• The written word. X-ray of my novels. Editions B. Barcelona, 2003. Reflection on his own literary work