{"id":1475,"date":"2011-05-11T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icdublinlibrary.wordpress.com\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2014-01-29T13:11:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T12:11:30","slug":"laura-freixas-author-of-the-month-autora-del-mes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/laura-freixas-author-of-the-month-autora-del-mes\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Freixas: Author of the month \/ Autora del mes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"freixas\"Laura Freixas <\/a>(Barcelona, 1958) estudi\u00f3 en el Liceo Franc\u00e9s de su ciudad. Se licenci\u00f3 en Derecho en 1980, pero se ha dedicado siempre a la escritura. Se dio a conocer en 1988 con una colecci\u00f3n de relatos, El asesino en la mu\u00f1eca.<\/p>\n

En 1997 se public\u00f3 su primera novela, \u00daltimo domingo en Londres, a la que siguieron Entre amigas (1998) y Amor o lo que sea (2005). Ha publicado tambi\u00e9n otro libro de relatos (Cuentos a los cuarenta, 2001) y una autobiograf\u00eda: Adolescencia en Barcelona hacia 1970 (2007).<\/p>\n

Paralelamente a su obra narrativa, Laura Freixas ha desarrollado una intensa labor como estudiosa y promotora de la literatura escrita por mujeres. En 1996 coordin\u00f3 y prolog\u00f3 una antolog\u00eda de relatos de autoras espa\u00f1olas contempor\u00e1neas, Madres e hijas (que alcanz\u00f3 9 ediciones en el primer a\u00f1o), y en 2000 public\u00f3 el influyente ensayo Literatura y mujeres. En 2009 vio la luz otra antolog\u00eda de parecidas caracter\u00edsticas, Cuentos de amigas, as\u00ed como la obra La novela femenil y sus lectrices (Premio Leonor de Guzm\u00e1n).<\/p>\n

Ha sido editora, cr\u00edtica literaria y traductora. Fund\u00f3 y dirigi\u00f3 de 1987 a 1994 la colecci\u00f3n literaria El espejo de tinta, de la editorial Grijalbo, donde public\u00f3 por primera vez en Espa\u00f1a a Amos Oz y Elfriede Jelinek, entre otros autores. Ha ejercido la cr\u00edtica literaria en El Pa\u00eds y traducido los diarios de Virginia Woolf y de Andr\u00e9 Gide, as\u00ed como las cartas de Madame de S\u00e9vign\u00e9. Dirigi\u00f3 el n\u00famero monogr\u00e1fico de Revista de Occidente consagrado al diario \u00edntimo en Espa\u00f1a (julio-agosto 1996). Colabora regularmente en distintos medios: Babelia (suplemento cultural de El Pa\u00eds), Revista de libros, Letras libres, Mercurio\u2026 y es columnista del peri\u00f3dico La Vanguardia.<\/p>\n

Ha publicado libros de divulgaci\u00f3n como Taller de narrativa (1999) y una biograf\u00eda de la escritora brasile\u00f1a Clarice Lispector bajo el t\u00edtulo Ladrona de rosas (2010).<\/p>\n

Imparte talleres literarios en diversas instituciones y ha sido profesora, conferenciante o escritora invitada en numerosas Universidades espa\u00f1olas y extranjeras (Estocolmo, Budapest, Londres, Edimburgo\u2026), especialmente de Estados Unidos (Cornell, Virginia, Rutgers, City University de Nueva York, entre otras). En 2010 ha sido profesora visitante en la Universidad norteamericana de Dartmouth College.<\/p>\n

Forma parte del Parlamento Cultural Europeo y preside la asociaci\u00f3n Cl\u00e1sicas y Modernas para la igualdad de g\u00e9nero en la cultura.Tras haber residido en Francia e Inglaterra, vive en Madrid desde 1991.<\/p>\n

Laura Freixas charlar\u00e1 sobre Carmen Mart\u00edn Gaite y con todos los asistentes al acto del martes 3 de mayo, a las 18h, en nuestro Caf\u00e9 Literario.<\/a><\/p>\n

Tambi\u00e9n vamos a celebrar una entrevista digital con Laura en la bit\u00e1cora de la biblioteca. Pod\u00e9is enviar vuestras preguntas sobre sus obras, o sobre Carmen Mart\u00edn Gaite. Laura responder\u00e1 a ellas el mismo d\u00eda 3 de mayo, de 16.30h a 17.30h, hora de Dubl\u00edn.<\/p>\n

Consulta la entrevista de los lectores con Laura Freixas<\/a><\/p>\n

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Laura Freixas<\/a> (Barcelona, 1958) studied at the FrenchSchool in her home city. She got a BA degree in Law in 1980 but she has always been dedicated to writing. She was first known in 1988 for her collection of short stories, El asesino en la mu\u00f1eca (The Wrist Murderer).<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1997 her first novel \u00daltimo domingo en Londres (Last Sunday in London) was published, followed by Entre amigas (Just between Friends, 1998) and Amor o lo que sea (Love or Whatever It Is, 2005). She has also published another collection of short stories (Cuentos a los cuarenta, Tales at the Age of Forty, 2001) and an autobiography: Adolescencia en Barcelona hacia 1970 (A Teenager in Barcelona Around 1970, 2007).<\/span><\/p>\n

Along with her contribution to fiction Laura Freixas has developed an intense work both as a scholar and a promoter of literature written by women. In 1996 she compiled and wrote the prologue for an anthology of short stories by Spanish contemporary female authors, Madres e hijas (Mothers and Daughters, which reached nine editions during its first year), and in 2000 she published the influential essay Literatura y mujeres (Women and Literature).\u00a0 In 2009, Cuentos de amigas (Women Friends), another anthology of similar characteristics was published, as well as the work La novela femenil y sus lectrices (Ladies\u2019 Novels and Lady Readers, \u2018Leonor de Guzm\u00e1n\u2019 Award).<\/span><\/p>\n

She has also worked as a Spanish language assistant at two British universities, as a publisher, a literary critic for El Pa\u00eds and a translator. At present she teaches literature workshops for different institutions, she writes as a columnist for the newspaper La Vanguardia and does literary reviews for its supplement “Cultura\/s”. She is a contributor to literary magazines such as Mercurio, Letras libres, Revista de libros…<\/span><\/p>\n

She has been a lecturer or a writer in residence at a large number of Spanish and foreign universities (Stockholm, Nottingham, Budapest, Cornell, Rutgers, CUNY…) and taught creative writing at the University of Virginia (UVA) in 2006 and at DarmouthCollege in 2010. She is a member of the European Cultural Parliament and the chair of the association Cl\u00e1sicas y Modernas for gender equality in Spanish culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

After been living in France and England, she currently resides in Madrid since 1991.<\/span><\/p>\n

We will also be hosting a virtual interview with Laura on our library\u2019s blog, whereby you can ask her questions about her own work or the work of Carmen Mart\u00edn Gaite.<\/a> You can send in your questions as of now, Laura will answer them live on Tuesday 3rd May, from 4.30pm to 5.30pm.\u00a0hora de Dubl\u00edn.<\/span><\/p>\n

Digital inteview with Laura Freixas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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