La mort i la primavera by Mercè Rodoreda

I have spoken of myself and essential things in my life, with a certain lack of measure. If it didn't seem like an exaggeration, I would say that I write to please myself.

Her novel 'La plaa del diamant' ('The diamond square', translated as 'The Time of the Doves', 1962) has become the most acclaimed Catalan novel of all time and since the year it was published for the first time, it has been translated into over 20.

Publicada per primer cop lany 1962, ha estat traduïda a més de trenta idiomes. La novel·la sha convertit en un clàssic de la literatura catalana de postguerra. Ha estat considerada per la crítica com la seva obra principal. She is considered by many to be the most important Catalan novelist of the postwar period. La plaça del Diamant és una novel·la psicològica de lescriptora Mercè Rodoreda. Īfter her death, one more of her artistic aspects was discovered, painting, which had remained in the background due to the importance that Rodoreda gave to writing: Merc Rodoreda i Gurgu was a Catalan novelist. Some critics consider it to be one of the best novels published in Spain after the Spanish Civil War. 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. She also has been called the most important Catalan female novelist of the postwar period. She is considered the most influential contemporary Catalan language writer, as evidenced by the references of other authors in her work and the international repercussion, with translations into more than thirty languages. Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes (1980) The Time of the Doves, Mirall trencat, Aloma

La mort i la primavera by Mercè Rodoreda