Carme Riera is a professor of Hispanic Philology and director of the José A. Goytisolo Chair at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, as well as a writer and noted essayist.
Riera began her literary career in 1974 with I Leave You Love, the Sea as My Token, a volume of short stories. Her first novel, A Spring for Domenico Guarini won the Prudenci Bertana Prize and in 1989 she won the Ramon Llull Prize for Mirror Images. Her novel In the Blue Beyond, brought her to prominence in the panorama of Catalan literature. The following year, her novel Narrative 1995 became the first book written in Catalan to win the National Prize. In 2000 she published Towards the Open Sky and in 2004 received the Sant Jordi Prize for Half of the Soul. In 2006 she published The Summer of English.
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