Núria Pradas Explained

Núria Pradas
Birth Name:	Núria Pradas i Andreu
Birth Date:	1 September 1954
Birth Place:	Barcelona, Spain
Occupation:	Author
Alma Mater:	University of Barcelona
Awards:	Premio Ferran Canyameres Premio Carmesina Premio Ciutat d'Olot Premio Agna Canalies Mestres Premio Carlemany Premio Ramon Llull

Núria Pradas i Andreu (born 1 September 1954) is a Spanish Catalan philologist and writer. She began her literary career in the field of children's and youth literature. She is the author of an extensive literary production in this field as well as in adult fiction.^[1]

Biography

Núria Pradas i Andreu was born in Barcelona, 1 September 1954,^[2] in neighborhood of El Poblenou.^[3] Her love of reading led her to study Catalan Philology at the University of Barcelona, graduating in 1980. Immediately, she began working there as a Catalan Language and Literature teacher. It was in Sant Feliu de Llobregat, where she lived for a long time, that her career began in amateur theatre, specifically in the company, which served as an experience for her to later direct youth theater groups and also to write her own plays. She also collaborated with Borràs in the theater group L'Ull de Bou of Sant Esteve Sesrovires.^[4]

From theater, she moved on to narrative and in 1995, she published her first book, Sol d'hivern, with which she began her career in children's and youth literature. In 2012, she was awarded the for Sota el mateix cel.^[5] In 2014, she published her first novel for adults, La Noia de la Biblioteca, which was followed by Somnis a mida (2016), translated into more than ten languages, and L'aroma del temps (2018).^[6]

In 2020, she won the Ramon Llull Novel Award with Tota una vida per recuerdo,^[7] a novel set in the U.S. during the 1930s, focused on the world of cartoons. Among her latest youth novels, can be noted, Ella (2020) and El cant del cigne (2022), while her latest novel for an adult audience is La vida secreta de Sylvia Nolan (Ed. Fate, 2022).

Awards and honours

Premio Ferran Canyameres for Parella de Dames (1996)^[8]
Premio Carmesina for La Princesa Pomèlia (1998)
Premio Ciutat d'Olot for A carn, a carn! (2002)
Premio Agna Canalies Mestres (2009)^[9]
Premio Carlemany (2012)
Premio Ramon Llull for Tota una vida per recordar (2020)

Selected works

Children's and youth literature

1995: Sol d'hivern, Ed. Baula
1995: Lior, Ed. Cruïlla^[10]
1995: L'extraordinària píndola rosa, Ed. Cruïlla
1996: La batalla de la sopa, Ed. Baula
1996: Un estiu amb l'Anna, Ed. Cruïlla
1996: Posa una tieta Adela a la teva vida, Ed. Baula
1996: Parella de dames, Ed. Baula
1997: Algú ha vist en Puck?, Ed. Cruïlla
1998: Simfonia per a un segrest, Ed. Alfaguara
1998: La vareta Boja, Ed. Cruïlla
1998: La princesa Pomèlia, Ed. del Bullent
1998: La tieta Adela del Nil, Ed. Baula
1999: Laura, Ed. Cruïlla
1999: Els iungs, Ed. La Galera
1999: Ai, Antonia o t'has ficat?, Ed. Baula
2000: L'IJ a la recerca de la iaia perduda, Ed. Alfaguara
2000: Diaris de campaments, Ed. Casals
2000: L'Intrús, Ed. Cruïlla
2001: Embolic al món del no-res, Ed. La Galera
2002: La serpent de plomes, Ed. Cruïlla
2002: La tieta Adela a Nova York, Ed. Baula
2002: A carn, a carn!, Ed. La Galera
2003: La Pipa ha perdut la son, Ed. Cruïlla
2004: L'últim refugi, Ed. Alfaguara
2005: Això no mola, Escarola!, Ed. Barcanova
2005: Curs per a joves detectius, Ed. La Galera
2005: Curs per a joves genets de dracs, Ed. La Galera
2005: Manhattan, Ed. Baula
2006: Curs per a joves patges reials, Ed. La Galera
2006: Misteri al carrer de les Glicines, Ed. Bambú
2006: La tieta Adela a Sevilla, Ed. Baula
2006: Curs per a joves fades bones, Ed. La Galera
2006: Una nit de reis boja, Ed. La Galera
2007: Quina família!, Ed. La Galera
2008: Postals en sèpia, Ed. Planeta
2009: Paraules figurades, Ed. Barcanova. Col. “Mots Vius”
2009: Els secrets de la vida, Ara Editorial
2010: : La bruixeta Encantada i l'escombra Primmirada, Ed. Alfaguara
2010: Sant Jordi i el drac, Ed. Barcanova, Col. El Petit Univers
2010: Heka, un viatge màgic a Egipte. Ed. Bambú
2010: La colla de les mofetes, Ed. Barcanova
2011: Raidho, Ed. Bambú
2011: La tieta Adela a Venècia, Ed. Baula
2011: Lulú Pecas: Un secreto secretísimo, Ed. Medialive
2011: Lulú Pecas: Aventura en el colegio, Ed. Medialive
2011: Lulú Pecas: Lulú y su superequipo, Ed. Medialive
2011: Lulú Pecas: Un cumpleaños muy molón, Ed. Medialive
2012: : Lulú se pone estupenda, Ed. Medialive
2012. Koknom, Ed. Bambú
2014: Els desastrosos encanteris de la bruixa Serafina, Ed. Bambú
2014: Abril és nom de Primavera, Ed. Animallibres
2014: Felipe Qué Flipe y el Supermóvil, Ed. RBA
2014: Felipe qué Flipe en tierra de dinosaurios, Ed. RBA
2014: Black soul, Ed. Bambú
2016: La filla de l'argenter, Ed. Animallibres
2020: Ella, ed. Bambú
2022: El cant del cigne, ed. Bambú

Crossover literature (for all audiences)

2012: El perfum de les llimones, Món Abacus
2013: Sota el mateix cel, Ed. Columna
2014: Nebbia, Ed. Bromera
2020: La marca del lleó, Ed. Fanbooks (with Glòria Sabaté)

Novels

2014: La noia de la biblioteca, Ed. Columna
2016: Somnis a mida, Ed. Columna.
2017: La pintora del barret de palla, Ed. Edafós
2017: L'aroma del temps
2020: Tota una vida per recordar
2022: La vida secreta de la Sylvia Nolan

Translations

2009: Ferotge, el Cavernícola, Ed. La Galera (French translation)
2011: Dani Bocafoc (1 i 2), Ed. La Galera (Spanish translation)
2012: Vordak, L'Ultramalvat, Ed. La Galera (Spanish translation)
2012: L'inspector Gadget, Ed. La Galera
2012: Johnny Test, Ed. La Galera

Easy reading adaptations for

El libro de la Selva
Dràcula
El gos dels Baskerville
Orgullo y perjuicio
Grandes esperanzas

Notes and References

Web site: Núria Pradas Andreu . Grup62 . 23 February 2023 . ca-es.
Encyclopedia: Núria Pradas i Andreu (Barcelona, 1 de setembre de 1954) . www.enciclopedia.cat . 23 February 2023.
Web site: Núria Pradas i Andreu . www.lagaleraeditorial.com . 23 February 2023.
Web site: Núria Pradas . Pagina de Psihologie . 23 February 2023 . ro-RO . 11 November 2020.
News: Nopca . Jordi . 'Sota el mateix cel', de Núria Pradas, premi Carlemany 2012 . 23 February 2023 . Ara Balears . 4 December 2012 . ca.
News: . Núria Pradas gana el XL Premio Ramon Llull con "Tota una vida per recordar" . 23 February 2023 . La Vanguardia . 24 January 2020 . es.
Web site: "Tota una vida per recordar" by Núria Pradas, translate . www.llull.cat . Institut Ramon Llull . 23 February 2023 . en . 8 November 2021.
Web site: Cornabou - Revista de Literatura Infantil i Juvenil - Childrens Literature . www.andreusotorra.com . 23 February 2023 . es.
Web site: Núria Pradas presenta el seu llibre a CCOO del Baix Llobregat . elBaix.cat . 23 February 2023 . ca . 26 May 2021.
Web site: "Catalan SF" at Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Antoni Munné-Jordà, translated into English by Sara Martín Alegre. 2016.