| Laura Freixas | |
| Birth Name: | Laura Freixas Revuelta |
| Birth Date: | 1958 |
| Birth Place: | Barcelona, Spain |
| Occupation: | Writer, novelist, essayist, literary critic, translator, journalist, art critic |
| Nationality: | Spanish |
Laura Freixas (born 1958) is a Spanish novelist, short story writer, and newspaper columnist.
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. She got a BA degree in Law in 1980 from the University of Barcelona. She has been active as a writer since 1988. Freixas' work also includes scholarship and promotion of women writers.[4]
She has also worked in international universities as a publisher, a Spanish language assistant, and a translator. At present she teaches literature workshops for different institutions. She writes as a columnist for the newspaper La Vanguardia and does literary reviews for its supplement Cultura/s. She is a contributor to literary magazines such as Mercurio, Letras libres, El País, and Revista de Libros.
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). 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.
Freixas has campaigned against trans-inclusive laws in Spain as she views it as a regression for Spanish gender equality.[6] [7]