Esther Tusquets Writer
Esther Tusquets (30 August 1936 – 23 July 2012) was a Spanish publisher, novelist and essayist.Tusquets was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain and studied philosophy, literature and history at the University of Barcelona. She spent several years teaching literature and history at the Carillo Academy. She was the director of the publishing house "Lumen" in Barcelona.She published her first novel El mismo mar de todos los veranos (The Same Sea as Every Summer) in 1978. It was the first in a trilogy, and was followed up by El amor es un juego solitario (Love is a Solitary Game) in 1979 and Varada tras el último naufragio (Stranded) in 1980. Her focus in these novels was language and the lesbian body as battlefields.She suffered from Parkinson's disease for several years. Tusquets died of pneumonia at the age of 75 in Barcelona on 23 July 2012.
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| Career start | 1978 |
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| Career end | 2012 |