Maria Antònia Oliver Cabrer


Maria Antònia Oliver Cabrer is a Spanish writer of Catalan descent. Her work has been translated into German, English, Spanish, Galician, French, Portuguese, and Russian. She has been honored with the Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes in 2016.

Life

Born in Manacor, Balearic Islands, she has been a resident of Barcelona since 1969. Oliver is known for her novels and short stories, and is also a Castilian and Catalan language translator. In the 1980s, Oliver joined a number of other Catalan-language writers to form the Ofèlia Dracs collective, looking to bring attention to, and broaden the output of deepening Catalan literature.
Oliver`s first work was published in 1970. While most of her work has been for adult readers, some is aimed at children and youth. In addition to novel and short stories, she has written plays, screenplays, as well as stories for radio and television. She has worked for El Correo Catalán, Diario de Mallorca, Última hora, and Diari de Barcelona. Writing in Catalan, many of her works have been translated into Castilian, German, English, Galician and Russian.
She is married to the writer Jaume Fuster. She has served as dean of Institució de les Lletres Catalanes.

Selected works