Tina Vallès
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Tina Vallès | |
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 Tina Vallès signing books in 2013 | |
| Born | 1976 (age 49–50) Barcelona |
| Occupations | writer, proofreader and translator |
| Notable work | La memòria de l'arbre |
Tina Vallès (born 1976 in Barcelona) is a Catalan writer, proofreader and translator.[1]
She graduated in Catalan Philology at the University of Barcelona in 1999.[2] Since then she has worked as a proofreader for several publishing houses in Catalonia, and has translated several works from Spanish to Catalan. She has also written several books of fiction, including El parèntesi més llarg (The Longest Parenthesis), for which she won the Mercè Rodoreda Award.[3]
She has been the co-editor of the literary magazine Paper de Vidre since 2006 and was a founding member of the Professional Association of Translators and Interpreters of Catalonia. In 2017 she won the Anagrama Prize for novels with La memòria de l'arbre (The Memory of the Tree), a book that has been translated into 19 languages: Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Galician, Turkish, Arabic, German,[4] Polish, Lithuanian, Brazilian, Slovenian, Russian and Czech.[5]
