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Mercè Rodoreda Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí ( ; 10 October 1908 – 13 April 1983 ) was a Spanish novelist , who wrote in Catalan . She has been called 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 popular Catalan novel to date and has been translated into over 30 languages . Some critics consider it to be one of the best novels published in Spain after the Spanish Civil War . Biography . She was born at 340 carrer de Balmes , Barcelona , in 1908 . Her parents were Andreu Rodoreda , from Terrassa and Montserrat Gurguí , from Maresme . Her parents financial problems forced her to leave school at age nine . In 1928 , just 20 years old , she married her uncle Joan Gurguí , 14 years her senior , and in 1929 she had her only child , Jordi . She began her writing career with short stories in magazines , as an escape from her unhappy marriage . She then wrote psychological novels , including Aloma which won the Crexells Prize , but even with the success this novel enjoyed , Rodoreda decided to remake and republish it some years later since she was not fully satisfied with this period of her life and her works at that time . At the start of the Spanish Civil War , she worked for the Generalitat de Catalunya , the autonomous Government of Catalonia . She was exiled in France and later Switzerland , where in 1957 she broke her silence with the publication of her book Twenty-Two short stories , which earned her the Víctor Català Prize . With Camelia Street ( El Carrer de les Camèlies ) ( 1966 ) she won several prizes . In the 1970s , she returned to Romanyà de la Selva in Catalonia and finished the novel Mirall trencat ( Broken Mirror ) in 1974 . Amongst other works came Viatges i flors ( Travels and flowers ) and Quanta , quanta guerra ( How much War ) in 1980 , which was also the year in which she won the Premi dHonor de les Lletres Catalanes . During the last period of her lifetime , her works developed from her usual psychologic style to become more akin to symbolism in its more cryptic form . In 1998 a literature prize was instituted in her name : the Mercè Rodoreda prize for short stories and narratives . She was made a Member of Honour of the Associació dEscriptors en Llengua Catalana , the Association of Writers in Catalan Language . The library in Platja dAro is named in her honor . She died in Girona of liver cancer , and was interred in the cemetery of Romanyà . Most important works . Original editions . Novels . - 1932 , Soc una dona honrada ? ( Am I an Honest Woman? ) ( Barcelona : Llibreria Catalòna ) . - 1934 , Del que hom no pot fugir ( What one Cannot Flee ) ( Barcelona : Clarisme ) . - 1934 , Un dia de la vida dun home ( One Day in the Life of a Man ) ( Barcelona : Biblioteca a Tot Vent 70 ) . - 1936 , Crim ( Murder ) ( Barcelona : Edicions de la Rosa dels Vents ) . - 1938 , Aloma ( Barcelona : Institució de les Lletres Catalanes ) , revised in 1969 ( Barcelona : Edicions 62 ) . - 1962 , La plaça del diamant ( Diamond Square ) ( Barcelona : Club Editor ) . - 1966 , El carrer de les Camèlies ( The Street of the Camellias ) ( Barcelona : Club Editor ) . - 1967 , Jardí vora el mar ( Garden by the Sea ) ( Barcelona : Club Editor ) . - 1974 , Mirall Trencat ( Broken Mirror ) ( Barcelona : Club Editor ) . - 1980 , Quanta , quanta guerra .. . ( So Much War … ) ( Barcelona : Club Editor ) . - 1986 ( posth. ) , La mort i la primavera ed . Nuria Folch ( Death in Spring ) ( Barcelona : Club Editor ) . - 1997 ( posth. ) , La mort i la primavera ed . Carme Arnau ( Barcelona : Institut dEstudis Catalan ) . - 1991 ( posth. ) , Isabel i Maria ( Isabel and Maria ) ed . Carme Arnau ) ( Valencia : Ediciona 3 i 4 ) . Short Story Collections . - 1958 , Vint-i-dos contes ( Twenty Two Stories ) ( Barcelona : Editorial Selecta ) . - 1967 , La meva Cristina i altres contes ( My Christina and Other Stories ) ( Barcelona : Edins 62 ) . - 1979 , Semblava de seda i altres contes ( It Seemed Like Silk and Other Stories ) ( Barcelona : Edicions 62 ) . - 1980 , Viatges i flors ( Travels and Flowers ) ( Barcelona : Edicions 62 ) . Complete Works . - 1984 , Obres completes ( Barcelona : Edicions 62 ) . Bibliography . - Mendos , Maria Isidra , Mercè Rodoreda : A Selected and Annotated Bibliography ( 1963-2001 ) ( Lanham , Maryland : Scarecrow Press , 2004 ) . English translations . - 1981 , The Time of the Doves ( Plaça del diamant ) trans . David H . Rosenthal ( New York : Taplinger ) . - 1984 , My Christina & Other Stories trans . David H . Rosenthal ( Port Townsend , Washington : Graywolf Press ) . - 1993 , Camellia Street ( El carrer de les Camèlies ) trans . David H . Rosenthal ( Saint Paul , Minnesota : Graywolf Press , 1993 ) . - 2006 , A Broken Mirror ( Mirall trencat ) trans . Josep Miquel Sobrer ( Lincoln , Nebraska : Bison Books ) . - 2009 , Death in Spring ( La mort i la primavera ) trans . Martha Tennent ( Rochester , New York : Open Letter . - 2011 , The Selected Stories of Mercè Rodoreda , trans . Martha Tennent ( Rochester , New York : Open Letter ) . ( Selected from Vint-i-dos contes and La miva Cristina i alters contes ) . - 2013 , In Diamond Square ( La plaça del diamant ) trans . Peter Brush ( London : Virago ) . - 2015 , War , So Much War ( Quanta , quanta guerra … ) trans . Martha Tennent and Maruxa Relaño ( Rochester , New York : Open Letter ) . - 2020 , Garden By the Sea ( Jardi vora el mar ) trans . Martha Tennent and Maruxa Relaño ( Rochester , New York : Open Letter ) .