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Sílvia Soler
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Sílvia Soler i Guasch (born 1961) is a Spanish writer and journalist who writes in Catalan. In 2013, her novel L’estiu que comença was awarded the Ramon Llull Novel Award.
Early life and education
Sílvia Soler i Guasch was born on 5 October,[1] 1961, in Figueres.[1][2] Her mother is the writer Carme Guasch,[1] her brother the journalist Toni Soler i Guasch.[1][2] She has a degree in information science.[1]
Career
As a journalist, Soler has worked for the radio, press, and television.[3] She has written for such newspapers as Avui, Punt Diari and Presència.[1] With time, she began to put more focus on book writing.[2][4]
Soler has written over twenty books, chiefly novels.[1] Her fiction debut, Semblava de vidre (1984), won the Recull award.[1] She is also the recipient of premi Fiter i Rossell for Mira’m als ulls[1] and the Prudenci Bertrana Prize for Petons de diumenge.[1][2] In 2013, Soler was awarded the Ramon Llull Novel Award for L’estiu que comença,[1][5] a novel about a fifty years long friendship between a man and a woman.[2]
Soler's novel 39+1. L’edat en què una dona sap que l’home de la seva vida és ella mateixa (2005) was adapted for television.[2][5]
Works
Fiction
- Semblava de vidre,1984
- Arriben els ocells de nit, 1985
- Ramblejar, 1992
- El centre exacte de la nit, 1992
- El son dels volcans, 1999
- L’arbre de Judes, 2001
- Mira’m als ulls, 2004[1]
- 39+1. L’edat en què una dona sap que l’home de la seva vida és ella mateixa, 2005[5]
- 39+1+1: Enamorar-se és fàcil, si saps com, 2007
- Petons de diumenge, 2008
- Una família fora de sèrie, 2010
- Un creuer fora de sèrie, 2012
- Bàsquet, scrabble i tu, 2012 (young adult fiction written with son, Ferran Muñoz)
- L’estiu que comença, 2013
- Un any i mig, 2015
- Els vells amics, 2017
- Rellotges de sol, 2018
- El fibló, 2019
- Nosaltres, després, 2021[1]
- Estimada Gris, 2023[6]
- Cor fort, 2025[7]
Non-fiction
- Àngel Casas Show: anecdotari secret, 1983
- El gust de ser mare, 2004[1]