Mercè Rodoreda

Mercè Rodoreda

Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí (Catalan pronunciation: [məɾˈsɛ ruðuˈɾɛðə]; 10 October 1908 – 13 April 1983) was a Spanish novelist, who wrote in Catalan. She is considered the most influential contemporary Catalan language writer, as evidenced by the references of other authors in her work and the international repercussion, with translations into more than thirty languages. She also has been called the most important Catalan female novelist of the postwar period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mercè Rodoreda has received more than 109,858 page views. Her biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia. Mercè Rodoreda is the 1,072nd most popular writer (down from 1,037th in 2019), the 342nd most popular biography from Spain (down from 311th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Spanish Writer.

Mercè Rodoreda is most famous for her novel "The Time of the Doves," which tells the story of a Catalan family during the Spanish Civil War.