NÚRIA AÑÓ is a Catalan/Spanish writer, translator and at international conferences she usually talks about literary creation, cinema, cities or authors. She has shown her work at the University of Lleida, Tunis University, University of Jaén, International University of Andalucia, Spanish National Research Council, The Sysmän Kirjasto Library in Finland, The Shanghai Writers’ Association, Fudan University, The East China Normal University, Sinan Mansion, The Instituto Cervantes in Shanghai, the Conrad Festival, Massolit Books, Bar Baza and the Instituto Cervantes in Krakow.
Her works have been translated into Spanish, French, English, Italian, German, Polish, Chinese, Latvian, Portuguese, Dutch and Greek.
Her first novel Els nens de l’Elisa (2006) was awarded third prize in the 24th Ramon Llull Novel Award. L’escriptora morta [The Dead Writer] (2008); Núvols baixos [Lowering Clouds] (2009); La mirada del fill (2012) and the biography on Salka Viertel, El salón de los artistas exiliados en California [The Salon of Exiled Artists in California] (2020).
Her writing centres around the characters’ psychology, often through the use of anti-heroes. The characters are what stands out most about her work; they are more relevant than the topic itself. With an introspection, a reflection, not sentimental, but feminine, she finds a unique balance between the marginal worlds of parallels. Her novels are open to a wide variety of topics, they deal with important social and current themes like injustice or lack of communication between individuals. The basic plot of her novels does not tell you everything there is to know. By using this method, Añó attempts to involve the reader so that they ask their own questions to discover the deeper meaning of the content.
Núria won the 18th Joan Fuster Prize for Fiction, fourth place for international writing at the 2018 Shanghai get-Together and has been awarded with prestigious grants: NVL (Finland, 2016), SWP (China, 2016), BCWT (Sweden, 2017), IWTCR (Greece, 2017), UNESCO City of Literature (Poland, 2018), IWTH (Latvia, 2019) and IWP (China, 2020). For a more detailed background of the author, visit her webpage www.nuriaanyo.com.
