Laura Freixas

Laura Freixas
Laura Freixas en Medialab Prado in Madrid, october 2017
Born
Laura Freixas Revuelta

1958
Barcelona, Spain
NationalitySpanish
Occupation(s)Writer, novelist, essayist, literary critic, translator, journalist, art critic
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Laura Freixas (born 1958) is a Spanish novelist, short story writer, and newspaper columnist.

Biography

Freixas was born in Barcelona in 1958.[1] Laura Freixas is the granddaughter of Freixas Miquel.[2][3] Freixas studied at the French School in her home city of Barcelona.[1] She got a BA degree in Law in 1980 from the University of Barcelona.[1] She has been active as a writer since 1988.[1] Freixas' work also includes scholarship and promotion of women writers.[1][4]

She has also worked in international universities as a publisher, a Spanish language assistant, and a translator.[1] At present she teaches literature workshops for different institutions.[1] She writes as a columnist for the newspaper La Vanguardia and does literary reviews for its supplement Cultura/s.[1] She is a contributor to literary magazines such as Mercurio, Letras libres, El País, and Revista de Libros.[1]

She has been a lecturer or a writer in residence at many Spanish and foreign universities and taught creative writing at the University of Virginia (UVA).[1] She is a member of the European Cultural Parliament[5] and the chair of the association Clásicas y Modernas for gender equality in Spanish culture from 2009 to 2017.[1]

Freixas has campaigned against trans-inclusive laws in Spain as she views it as a regression for Spanish gender equality.[6][7]

Literary work

Novels

Short story collections

Compilations

  • Mothers and Daughters (1996) – Freixas also wrote the prologue
  • Women Friends (2009)

Non-fiction works

Autobiography

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Biography". Laura Freixas Website. Archived from the original on 1 June 2005. Retrieved 2021-07-27. [self-published source]
  2. ^ Minder, Raphael (2017). The struggle for Catalonia : rebel politics in Spain. London. pp. 64–65, 91. ISBN 978-1-84904-803-3. OCLC 1004748502.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Freixas, Laura (2014-01-09). "Una generación de catalanes". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Archived from the original on 22 January 2014. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  4. ^ Henseler, Christine (2003). Contemporary Spanish women's narrative and the publishing industry. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 2, 11, 20, 125. ISBN 0-252-02831-7. OCLC 50638487.
  5. ^ "Laura Freixas | European Cultural Parliament – ECP". Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  6. ^ "Paradojas trans, por Laura Freixas". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2021-03-01. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  7. ^ "Laura Freixas: "Me da mucho más miedo la Ley Trans que Vox"". El Español (in Spanish). 2021-07-02. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
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