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Place of Birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
About Teresa Solana
- Teresa Solana i Mir (born 15 May 1962 in Barcelona, Spain) is a contemporary Spanish writer of crime fiction in Catalan.
- She studied philosophy and the Classics at Universitat de Barcelona.
- Her work has been translated to English, French, German, Esperanto, Italian and Spanish. Teresa Solana started her professional career as a translator, mainly from French and English.
- She was the director of the translation center in Tarassona between 1998 and 2004.
- She also wrote various articles and essays on translation. In 2006 she published her first novel, Un crim imperfecte, for which she received the Premi Brigada 21 prize.
- This is the first story in which there appear the twin investigators Eduard and Borja Masdéu.
- Afterwards she published Drecera al paradÃs with the same protagonists.
- In 2010 she published her first, and up to now only, short story collection, Set casos de sang i fetge i una història d'amor.
- In 2013 she participated in the Edgar Allan Poe Award with the story 'Natura quasi morta 41'.
- She also published the novel Negres tempestes in which for the first time stars the investigator Norma Forester and with which she won the 3rd Premi Crims de Tinta prize.
- In 2011 she published L'hora del zen, another story with Eduard and Borja as protagonists.
- In early 2014 there appeared her seventh novel, La casa de les papallones, protagonized by Norma Forester.
- Campanes de boda (2016) includes the twin investigators again.
- Matèria grisa, also a crime novel, won the 19th Premi Roc Boronat prize.
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