AUTHOR BIO
Mercè Rodoreda (1908–1983) is widely regarded as the most important Catalan writer of the twentieth century. Exiled in France and Switzerland following the Spanish Civil War, Rodoreda began writing the novels and short stories—Twenty-Two Stories, The Time of the Doves, Camellia Street—that would make her internationally famous, while at the same time earning a living as a seamstress. In the mid-1960s she returned to Catalonia, where she continued to write. Death in Spring, her final novel, is also available from Open Letter.
TRANSLATOR BIO
Martha Tennent received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Barcelona and served as the founding dean of the School of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Vic. She has regularly translated between Spanish, Catalan, and English, and her translations have appeared in Two Lines, Words Without Borders, eXchanges, and Review of Contemporary Fiction. She has received many accolades and awards for her translations, including a Literature Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for this collection.