Nuria Amat

Nuria Amat studied at University of Barcelona and Autonomous University of Barcelona. The recorded working language is Spanish, Catalan and French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opinion journalism and essay. Works named in the authority record are Queen Cocaine and La intimidad. Distinctions recorded are Ramon Llull Novel Award and City of Barcelona Award.

• Name — Nuria Amat • Born — 1950 • Birthplace — Barcelona, Spain • Education — Autonomous University of Barcelona (PhD) • Occupation — * Writer • librarian • Website — nuriaamat.com

Nuria Amat was born in 1950, in Barcelona. She gained a degree in Spanish studies, then completed a doctorate in information science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Amat wrote some studies on library science, worked as a librarian, and taught library science at the University of Barcelona. Her first non-scholarly published work was a tome of poetry called Pan de boda (1979). Amat went on to write essays, short story collections and novels in Spanish. She was part of the Barcelona literary scene of the 1970s and 1980s, maintaining friendships with such writers as Juan Goytisolo, Carlos Fuentes, Josep María Castellet or Enrique Vila-Matas. Amat's literary work is often complex in form and focused on the processes of reading and writing, frequently employing metafiction. Her body of work includes the novel Todos somos Kafka, which both reflects on the literary tradition and its own structure; it was called "magnificent" by Carlos Fuentes in El País. In 2002, Amat won the Premio Ciudad de Barcelona for Reina de América – a novel about a Spanish woman writer living through a civil war in Colombia. Her books have been translated to Arabic, English, French, Italian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Czech and Polish. Apart from writing in Spanish, Amat has also been published in Catalan. She has written a theatre play called Pat's Room (1997) and a novel Amor i guerra about the assassination of Leon Trotsky by Ramón Mercader, with whom she is distantly related from the mother's side. The novel brought her the Ramon Llull Novel Award 2011. Amat started writing notes for the novel in both Catalan and Spanish, but then decided to write the whole book in Catalan, later creating a Spanish version. Amat has been vocal about rejecting the normalization of the Catalan language carried out by the Generalitat de Catalunya.

• Narciso y Armonía, 1982 • El ladrón de libros, 1988 • Amor Breve, 1990 • Monstruos, 1991 • Todos somos Kafka, 1993 • Viajar es muy difícil, 1995 • La intimidad, 1997 • El país del alma, 1999 • El siglo de las mujeres, 2000 • Reina de América, 2001; Eng. edition: Queen Cocaine, trans. by Peter Bush, 2005 • Deja que la vida llueva sobre mí, 2007 • Amor i guerra, 2011 • Amor y Guerra, 2012 • El sanatorio, 2016

• Pan de boda, 1979 • Amor infiel, 2004 • Poemas impuros, 2008

• Pat's Room, 1997 – theatre play • Memorias de una mujer libre, 2022 – autobiography