Maria Espinet

TERESA PÀMIES I BERTRAN 

 BIOGRAPHY

Teresa Pàmies was born on October 1919 in Balaguer, Catalonia (Spain). She was a journalist, an activist and a writer.

She grew up in Balaguer and her childhood was happy and intense. In her childhood she went to school to Balaguer. When she was 10 years old she already sold a clandestine magazine called La batalla.

Her father was an important leader in the BOC (Bloc obrer camperol) and her mother was a dressmaker.

When she was 17 years old, she moved to Barcelona because of her ideas. After the Spanish Civil War ended she went to exile to different countries.

Teresa Pàmies studied journalism at the Female University of Mexico and later she worked at the radio in Prague. From there, she wrote for some magazines of Catalonia.

She went back to Catalonia in 1971 and then she dedicated herself to writing books mainly about life in exile.

She received some awards. The most important ones are:

                                               Premi Josep Pla de narrativa 1970
                                               Premi d’honor de les lletres catalanes 2001
                                               Premi internacional de periodisme Manuel Vazquez Montalvan 2006
                                               Creu de St Jordi 1984
                                               Medalla d’or de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona 2000

I admire her because she was consistent with her ideas.