Núria Añó Writer

Núria Añó (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈnuɾia aˈɲo], Spanish pronunciation: [ˈnuɾja aˈɲo]) (born 1973 in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain) studied Catalan Philology and German Language. She is a Catalan writer, a translator and a speaker at conferences and symposia.Añó started writing tales at a young age and published her first story in 1990. After that some of her short stories have been published in anthology books. In 1996 she was awarded the 18th City of Almenara Joan Fuster Prize for Fiction. Another of her short stories 2066. Comença l'etapa de correcció (2066. Beginning the age of correction) was translated in 2006 into Spanish, French, English, German, Italian and Polish. The short story Presage, written in 2005, is also published into English on the American literary journal When Women Waken.Her first novel Els nens de l'Elisa was third among the finalists for the 24th Ramon Llull Prize for Catalan literature, the most relevant literary award in Catalan language. L'escriptora morta has been published in 2008 and Núvols baixos, in 2009. La mirada del fill, published in 2012, is her most recent novel.