The Majorcan author, Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes, and creator of the first female detective of Catalan literature, had not published since 2007.
“To live is to write and to write, to live”, Maria Antònia Oliver had as her motto, with which she wrapped the inseparable duo that for some writers in the Catalan language of the seventies forged social commitment and literature. And, of course, inexorably in her case, life itself. The raison for living of the writer from Manacor, Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes in 2016, has definitively departed after she died today in Palma at the age of 75.
It was about writing and living without distinction and, furthermore, with the ultimate objective of filling the immense void that the irruption of Francoism had left in Catalan literature, thus breaking up themes and styles and recovering genres.
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