He was one of the most outstanding novelists of contemporary Catalan literature. The writer and journalist Robert Saladrigas died this morning in Barcelona at the age of 78 as a result of cancer.

Saladrigas was one of the most outstanding novelists of contemporary Catalan literature, and for almost 40 years he wrote literary criticisms in La Vanguardia, which reported on his death in its digital publication. Born in Barcelona in 1940, Saladrigas wrote his first stories at age 15; at the age of 18, he competed for the Nadal Prize and belonged to the so-called Literary Generation of the 70s, which was strengthened in democracy and propelled his career during the Franco regime. Saladrigas worked for the newspaper Solidaridad Nacional and collaborated with other media such as El Correo Catalán, Destino, Tele-Estel, ABC, Cavall Fort, and Tele-exprés and, between 1981 and 1993, he directed the literary pages of La Vanguardia, a newspaper with which he continued collaborating until the present day.

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