Mercè Rodoreda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mercè Rodoreda

Catalan woman writer

Date of Birth: 10-Oct-1908

Place of Birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Date of Death: 13-Apr-1983

Profession: writer, poet, author, Esperantist, novelist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí (Catalan pronunciation: [m??'s? ruðu'??ð?]; 10 October 1908 – 13 April 1983) was a Spanish novelist, who wrote in Catalan. She has been called the most important Catalan novelist of the postwar period.
Her novel La plaça del diamant ('The diamond square', translated as The Time of the Doves, 1962) has become the most popular Catalan novel to date and has been translated into over 30 languages.
Some critics consider it to be one of the best novels published in Spain after the Spanish Civil War.