About Lowering Clouds:
Gabriele is an actress who, as her career approaches its end, takes a trip to the city where she spent her adolescence. Her sudden visit awakens something unexpected in two of her friends, who see in her an escape from their grey, monotonous days. Through her friends, the actress sees the life she could have had. The burden of fame has been pursuing her for forty years, and only one thing is evident: this trip awakens passions and changes the lives of everyone she visits.
“What Núria Añó gives us in this book is a piece of real life, dissected with the razor-sharp scalpel of her writing. This work contains great use of language and style. The novel is not easy, either its subject or its style, but it is very interesting and, in my opinion, is one of the great promises of contemporary Catalan writing.” –magazine on literary and comparative literature studies, L’Ull crític, No. 15-16
About the author: NÚRIA AÑÓ (Lleida, 1973) is a Catalan/Spanish writer. Some of her works, including novels, short stories, and essays, have been published and translated into Spanish, French, English, Italian, German, Polish, Chinese, Latvian, Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Arabic, and Romanian. Her first published novel, Els nens de l’Elisa (Omicron, 2006) was awarded third prize in the 24th Ramon Llull Novel Award, one of the most prestigious awards for Catalan literature, awarded by Editorial Planeta. L’escriptora morta ([The Dead Writer, 2020] Omicron) was published in 2008; Núvols baixos ([Lowering Clouds, 2020] Omicron) in 2009; La mirada del fill (Abadia) in 2012; El salón de los artistas exiliados en California ([The Salon of Exiled Artists in California], 2020) is a biography of screenwriter Salka Viertel. Núria won the 18th Joan Fuster Prize for Fiction Ciutat d’Almenara, fourth place for international writing at the 2018 Shanghai Get-Together, and has been awarded with prestigious international grants: Nuoren Voiman Liitto (Finland, 2016), Shanghai Writing Program (China, 2016), Baltic Centre (Sweden, 2017), IWTCR (Greece, 2017), Krakow UNESCO City of Literature (Poland, 2018), IWTH (Latvia, 2019 and 2023) and IWP (China, 2020).
Her writing centers around her characters’ psychology, often through the use of anti-heroes. Núria’s characters are the focus of her work, and are generally more relevant than the topic itself. With introspective reflections that are feminine rather than sentimental, she finds a unique balance between the marginal worlds of parallels. Her novels explore a wide variety of topics, delving into important social and current themes, such as injustice or lack of communication between individuals. The basic plot of her novels does not tell you everything there is to know. By using this method, Añó seeks to involve the reader so they ask their own questions to discover the deeper meaning of the content.
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Author Bio:
NÚRIA AÑÓ (1973) is a translated novelist and biographer. Her novel “Els nens de l’Elisa” (2006) was awarded third prize in the 24th Ramon Llull Novel Award. This was followed by “The Dead Writer” (2008), “Lowering Clouds” (2009), “La mirada del fill” (2012) and the biography on Salka Viertel “The Salon of Exiled Artists in California” (2020).
Núria won the 18th Joan Fuster Prize for Fiction, fourth place for international writing at Shanghai get-Together. They have awarded her with prestigious grants: NVL (Finland, 2016); SWP (China, 2016), BCWT (Sweden, 2017); IWTCR (Greece, 2017); UNESCO City of Literature (Poland, 2018); IWTH (Latvia, 2019 and 2023) and IWP (China, 2020).
For a more detailed background of the author, visit her webpage www.nuriaanyo.com.