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Mercè Rodoreda

1908 - 1983

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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 to 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. Her novel La plaça del diamant ('The diamond square', translated as The Time of the Doves, 1962) has become the most popular Catalan novel to date and has been translated into over 30 languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mercè Rodoreda is the 914th most popular writer (up from 1,166th in 2019), the 293rd most popular biography from Spain (up from 379th in 2019) and the 27th 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.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mercè Rodoreda ranks 914 out of 7,302. Before her are Leconte de Lisle, Samuel Richardson, Adunis, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, H. Rider Haggard, and Italo Svevo. After her are MacKenzie Scott, Ida Tarbell, Etty Hillesum, Christopher Tolkien, Joseph Campbell, and Rubén Darío.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Mercè Rodoreda ranks 49. Before her are Joseph McCarthy, Werner von Haeften, Cesare Pavese, William Saroyan, Carole Lombard, and Arthur Adamov. After her are Lita Grey, Rex Harrison, Chivu Stoica, Balthus, Stéphane Grappelli, and Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia. Among people deceased in 1983, Mercè Rodoreda ranks 31. Before her are Haldan Keffer Hartline, Anna Seghers, Aleksandar Ranković, Gloria Swanson, George O. Abell, and Luis Monti. After her are John Fante, Pridi Banomyong, Gerhard Barkhorn, Kenneth Clark, George Balanchine, and Vladimir Gelfand.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Mercè Rodoreda ranks 293 out of 3,355. Before her are Rafael Nadal (1986), Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436), Urraca of León (1081), Ildefons Cerdà (1815), Muhammad I of Córdoba (823), and Lluís Domènech i Montaner (1850). After her are Blanche I of Navarre (1387), Ernesto Valverde (1964), Postumus (250), Iker Casillas (1981), Carles Rexach (1947), and Sancho IV of Castile (1258).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Mercè Rodoreda ranks 27. Before her are Tirso de Molina (1579), Columella (4), Lucan (39), Judah Halevi (1079), Joseph of Anchieta (1534), and Antonio Machado (1875). After her are Prudentius (348), Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867), Silius Italicus (26), Benito Pérez Galdós (1843), Abraham Abulafia (1240), and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836).

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