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Rodoreda, Mercè (1909–1983)
Spanish author. Name variations: Merce Rodoreda.
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Born in Barcelona, Spain, on October 10, 1909 (some sources cite 1908); died in 1983; married and separated; children: one.
Born in Barcelona on October 10, 1909, Mercè Rodoreda was only allowed to attend school until age nine and often lamented her lack of formal education.
As a teenager, she married her mother's brother, with whom she had a child. After separating from her husband, she began writing, using Catalan rather than Spanish. Rodoreda finished five novels (she later disowned four of them, retaining only the Crexells prizewinning Aloma [1938]) and a number of short stories in the mid-1930s.
The Spanish Civil War interrupted her writing and her life.
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A supporter of the socialists and the Republic, she fled to France when Francisco Franco and the Nationalists triumphed in 1939. In exile, she became the mistress and housekeeper of Joan Armand Obiols, another Catalan writer.
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