Núria Añó is a Catalan/Spanish writer, translator and speaker at international conferences where she usually presents on literary creation, movies, cities, or authors such as Elfriede Jelinek, Patricia Highsmith, Salka Viertel, Alexandre Dumas fils, Franz Werfel or Karen Blixen.

Some of her novels, short stories and essays have been published and translated into Spanish, French, English, Italian, German, Polish, Chinese, Latvian, Portuguese, Dutch and Greek.

Her first published novel, Els nens de l'Elisa ([Elisa’s Children] Omicron, 2006), won third place in the XXIV Ramon Llull Award, one of the most prestigious awards in Catalan literature granted by Editorial Planeta. L'escriptora morta ([The Dead Writer, 2020] Omicron) was published 2008; Núvols baixos ([Lowering Clouds, 2020] Omicron), in 2009; La mirada del fill ([The Son’s Gaze] Abadia) in 2012 and El salón de los artistas exiliados en California ([The Salon of the Exiled Artists in California, 2020]), a biography about the Jewish actress and scriptwriter Salka Viertel.

She won the XVIII Joan Fuster Ciutat d’Almenara Award for Writing, the fourth international Shanghai Get-Together 2018 writing award, and she has been honored to receive several international grants: Nuoren Voiman Liitto (Finland, 2016), Shanghai Writing Program (China, 2016), Baltic Centre (Sweden, 2017), IWTCR (Greece, 2017), Kraków UNESCO City of Literature (Poland, 2018), IWTH (Latvia, 2019) and IWP (China, 2020).

Her writing explores the psychology of her characters, albeit through anti-heroes. The characters are what stands out in her work, and are more relevant perhaps than the subject matter. Thanks to a somewhat unsentimental female introspective viewpoint, she manages to create a singular balance between marginal and parallel worlds. Her novels cover a wide variety of topics, and important current social themes such as injustice or lack of communication between individuals. The basic design of her novels is that they do not tell you everything. Through this mechanism, Añó seeks to involve the reader so that they will ask their own questions, and discover the “deeper meaning” in her work.

For more about the author, please visit her website at the following link: www.nuriaanyo.com.