Beatriz de Moura

Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1939, de Moura grew up in a family of diplomats and travelled often in her youth.^[2] She studied at the University of Geneva.^[3] She moved to Catalonia in 1961 and worked for numerous publishing houses in Barcelona, a time during which she also became close with Esther Tusquets.^[4] In 1968, she married Òscar Tusquets, with whom she co-founded Tusquets Editores [es] the following year.^[5][6] Their first two publications were collective works titled Cuadernos ínfimos and Cuadernos Marginales.^[7] Situated on Barcelona's Avinguda Diagonal,^[8] the publishing house translated numerous works into Spanish.^[9] They also distributed works by Spanish authors such as Octavio Paz, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Jorge Luis Borges.^[10][11]

De Moura was credited with the worldwide distribution of Spanish authors such as Enrique Vila-Matas, Javier Cercas, and Fernando Aramburu.^[12][13] She also translated works from French into Spanish, such as Identity and Ignorance by Milan Kundera.^[14] In 2012, she signed an agreement with Grupo Planeta to manage Tusquets Editores and in 2017, she donated the publishing house's archives to the Biblioteca Nacional de España.^[15]

De Moura died in Barcelona on 17 April 2026.^[16]

• Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1998)^[17]
• Editorial Merit award at the Guadalajara International Book Fair (1999)^[18]
• Creu de Sant Jordi (2006)^[19]
• Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (2010)^[20]