Considered one of the deans of Catalan literature, she specialized in detective novels.
Writer and educator Teresa Juvé has died at the age of 104. Born in Madrid in 1921 to a Catalan father and a mother from Madrid, her family later moved to Barcelona. At the end of the Civil War, she went into exile in Toulouse, where she studied Philology and Comparative Literature.
Considered the dean of Catalan literature, her personal experiences led her to write books about the memory of exiles. She specialized in detective and historical novels, with a series starring the detective Plagumà and his collaborator, Judge Joanola.
In 1942, she joined the French Resistance to fight against the German occupation forces as a liaison officer. In 1948, she married the politician and educator Josep Pallach (1920–1977).
In 1963, she was a finalist for the Nadal Prize with her first novel, La charca en la ciudad (The Pond in the City), a work of which she published a Catalan version many years later under the title L’aiguamort a la ciutat (The Waterfall in the City) (Rúbrica Editorial, 2005).
