Maria Barbal

Maria Barbal i Farré (Tremp, Pallars Jussà, 17 September 1949) is a Spanish writer.

[1] Even though she has lived in Barcelona from the 1960s onward, the literary world of her early work as an author concentrates on the Pallars county of her childhood and adolescence, a rural surrounding observed by a critical eye.

Her first novel, Pedra de tartera [‘Stone from a boulder’], fully set in that space, was praised by the public and critics alike.

Barbal's work has been translated into Asturian, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch.

Throughout her career, Barbal has received numerous accolades, including the Creu de Sant Jordi in 2001, one of Catalonia's highest honors.