Laura Freixas
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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
- The Last Sunday in London (1997)
- Just Between Friends (1998)
- Love or Whatever It Is (2005)
Short story collections
- The Wrist Murderer (1988)
- Tales at the Age of Forty (2001)
Compilations
- Mothers and Daughters (1996) – Freixas also wrote the prologue
- Women Friends (2009)
Non-fiction works
- Women and Literature (2000)
- La novela femenil y sus lectrices (2009)
Autobiography
References
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External links
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- Laura Freixas's documentary and interview in Tesis program Archived
- Official Site of Association Clásicas y Modernas for gender equality in Spanish culture Template:Webarchive
- Pages with script errors
- 1958 births
- Living people
- Novelists from Catalonia
- Writers from Barcelona
- Spanish literary critics
- Spanish women literary critics
- Women writers from Catalonia
- Spanish women novelists
- Spanish women short story writers
- Spanish columnists
- Spanish women columnists
- 20th-century Spanish novelists
- 20th-century Spanish women writers
- 20th-century Spanish short story writers