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Maria Mercè Marçal

Maria Mercè Marçal was a Spanish linguist, poet, writer and translator (1952–1998). She was born at Ivars d'Urgell and died at Barcelona.

Also recorded as Maria Merce Marcal; Maria Merce Marcal I Serra.

Maria Mercè Marçal in brief

Born
1952
Died
1998
Known for
linguist, poet, writer and translator
Place of birth
Ivars d'Urgell
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Identity and origins

Maria Mercè Marçal was recorded at birth as Maria Mercè Marçal i Serra. The authorities additionally record the headings Maria Merce Marcal and Maria Merce Marcal I Serra. Her recorded languages were Catalan and Spanish.

She married Ramon Balasch i Pinyol. One child is recorded: Heura Marçal.

Recognition and collections

Maria Mercè Marçal received Barcelona Medal of Honor, Serra d'Or Critics' Prize for Literature and Essays, Premi Carlemany, Carles Riba Prize, Prudenci Bertrana Prize and Joan Crexells award.

Literature

13 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Des de la perifèria del discurs: Maria-Mercè Marçal i Dolors Miquel, Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia, 2017. Mercè Rodoreda and Maria-Mercè Marçal as ‘specters granted a hospitable memory’ in Mercè Ibarz’s Fiction, Catalan Narrative 1875-2015, 2020. Maria-Mercè MARÇAL SERRA, «Una aproximación en español a Maria-Mercè Marçal: los pétalos de Bruixa de dol (1979)», Hermēneus. Revista de traducción e interpretación, 2017. Sapphic Literary Genealogies in Maria-Mercè Marçal’s La passió segons Renée Vivien (1994), Queer Genealogies in Transnational Barcelona, 2019. Marçal, Maria-Mercè, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020. Confrontarse con el legado paterno: algunas consideraciones sobre “Aquella part de mi que adorava un feixista…” de Maria-Mercè Marçal y “Romance de la plata” de Christina Rosenvinge, Studia Iberystyczne, 2023. Pensar la in/visibilitat. Papers de treball, Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat, 2011. Maria-Mercè MARÇAL SERRA, «Una aproximación en español a Maria-Mercè Marçal: los pétalos de Bruixa de dol (1979)». Maria-Mercè MARÇAL SERRA, «A First Approach in Spanish to Maria-Mercè Marçal: Bruixa de dol’s petals (1979)», Hermeneus, 2019. Subversió, transició, tradició: política i subjectivitat a la primera poesia de Maria-Mercè Marçal, Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat, 2004. Cap a l'ordre simbòlic femení: <i>La passió segons Renée Vivien</i>, Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat, 2004. Uf, quin dissabte, rateta Arbequina!: una reescriptura feminista del conte tradicional català La rateta que escombrava l’escaleta per Maria-Mercè Marçal, Catalonia, 2021. Un pòrtic per a Maria Mercè Marçal, Haidé, 2018. Maria-Mercè Marçal: cinq poèmes de Bruixa de dol, Catalonia, 2012.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 13 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 3 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 3 means 3 genuinely separate publishers of record. 17 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1952Maria Mercè Marçal born at Ivars d'Urgell.
  2. 1998Maria Mercè Marçal died at Barcelona.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    Des de la perifèria del discurs: Maria-Mercè Marçal i Dolors Miquel, Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia, 2017

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    Marçal, Maria-Mercè, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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    Maria-Mercè MARÇAL SERRA, «Una aproximación en español a Maria-Mercè Marçal: los pétalos de Bruixa de dol (1979)», Hermēneus. Revista de traducción e interpretación, 2017

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    Mercè Rodoreda and Maria-Mercè Marçal as ‘specters granted a hospitable memory’ in Mercè Ibarz’s Fiction, Catalan Narrative 1875-2015, 2020

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    Sapphic Literary Genealogies in Maria-Mercè Marçal’s La passió segons Renée Vivien (1994), Queer Genealogies in Transnational Barcelona, 2019

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 37 articles naming Maria Mercè Marçal.

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  7. 7.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q3089747: Maria Mercè Marçal

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

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  8. 8.

    “Maria Mercè Marçal”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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