From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Carme(n) Riera (Palma de Mallorca, 1948) is a narrator, script-writer and essayist. She has a doctorate in Hispanic Philology and is a professor of Spanish literature at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

She studied in the school of the Sacred Heart (Sagrado Corazón) and in the Joan Alcover Institute (Instituto Joan Alcover) where she met Mallorcan writers and fell in love with a professor, Francisco Llinás.

In 1965 she moved to Barcelona to study Hispanics in the Department of Philosophy and Letters at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She graduated in 1970 and the following year married Fernando Llinás and was hired by Manuel Blecua to give classes in the Department.

That year her son Farrán was born, and she began her literary career. She writes in Catalan, Spanish, and Mallorquin (a dialect of Catalan). Currently she lives in Barcelona.

• Te deix, amor, la mar com a penyora, 1975 (I Leave You, My Love, The Sea as My Pledge)

• Je pos per testimoni les gavines, 1977

• Quasi bé un conte, la vida de Ramón Llull, 1980

• Els cementiris de Barcelona. Barcelona: Edhasa, 1981 (The Cemeteries of Barcelona)

• Una primavera per a Domenico Guarini. Barcelona: Montesinos Editor, S.A., 1981 (A Springtime for Domenico Guarini)

• Epitelis tendríssims. Barcelona: Edicions 62 S.A., 1981

• “El reportaje”. Short story. In: Doce relatos de mujeres. Navajo, Ymelda (ed.) . Madrid: Alianza, 1982, pp. 181-191. Cuentos.

• Qüestió d'amor propio. Barcelona: Laia, 1987

• La molt exemplar història del Gos Màgic i la seva cua. Barcelona: Empúries S.A., Editorial, 1988

• La escuela de Barcelona. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1988. Essay. Winner of the XVI Premio Anagrama 1988 (The School of Barcelona)

• Joc de miralls, 1989 (Play of Mirrors)

• La poesía de Carlos Barral. Barcelona: Edicions 62 S.A., 1990 (The Poetry of Carlos Barral)

• Hay veneno y Jazmín en tu tinta, aproximación a la, 1991

• Contra l'amor en conpanyia i altres relats. Barcelona: Destino, 1991

• Dins el darrer blau, 1994 (En el último azul) (In the Last Shade of Blue)

• “Princesa meva, lletra d'àngel.” Short Story. In: Érase una vez la paz. Barcelona: Planeta, 1996, pp. 187-193. Cuentos.

• Quadern d'una espera, 1998

• “Mon semblable, mon frère”. Short Story. In: Barcelona, un día. Regàs, Rosa (comp.) . Madrid: Alfaguara, 1998, pp. 357-376. Cuentos.

• Cap al cel obert. Barcelona: Destino, 2000. Novel. (Por el cielo y mas allá)

• “Metamorfosis”. Short Story. In: Orosia. Jaca: Pirineum Multimedia, 2002, pp. 147-155. Cuentos.

• La meitat de l'ánima, 2003. Novela. Winner of the XLIV Premio Sant Jordi 2003 (Half of the soul)

• 1980 Prudenci Bertrana Prize for her novel Una primavera per a Domenico Guarini (A Springtime for Domenico Guarini)

• 1989 Ramon Llull Prize for her Joc de miralls (A Play of Mirrors)

• 1994 Josep Pla Prize for Dins el darrer blau (In the Last Shade of Blue), a historical novel which also received the Joan Crexells Prize, the Lletra d'Or (Golden Letter) Prize, the Ministry of Culture National Prize for Narrative and the Elio Vittorini Prize from the Syracuse Department of Tourism.

• 2000, the Generalitat (Autonomous Government) of Catalonia awarded her the Cross of Saint George. She is a member of the Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (Association of Catalan Language Writers).