Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí was a Catalan novelist.
She is considered by many to be the most important Catalan 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 acclaimed Catalan novel of all time and since the year it was published for the first time, it has been translated into over 20 languages. It's also considered by many to be best novel dealing with the Spanish Civil War.
Partes de guerra
Ana María Matute & Manuel Chaves Nogales & Miguel Delibes & Ramón J. Sender & Arturo Barea & Ignacio Aldecoa & Manuel Rivas & Bernardo Atxaga & Andrés Trapiello & Ramiro Pinilla & Rafael García Serrano & Max Aub & Juan Eduardo Zúñiga & Francisco García Pavón & Jesús Fernández Santos & Francisco Ayala & Mercè Rodoreda & Fernando Quiñones & Juan García Hortelano & Edgar Neville & Antonio Pereira & Lino Novás Calvo & María Teresa León & Jorge Campos & Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín & Pere Calders & C. A. Jordana & Juan Antonio Olmedo & Luis López Anglada & Manuel Talens & Tomás Segovia