Pilar Rahola

Pilar Rahola i Martínez (Catalan pronunciation: [piˈla rəˈɔlə]; Barcelona, 21 October 1958) is a Spanish journalist, writer, and former politician and MP.

[1] In 1996, Rahola left Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya to join Àngel Colom and Joan Laporta in a new political group, the "Partit per la Independència," but after this failed she decided to concentrate on journalism and writing.

In recent years she has spoken of what she considers to be the hypocrisy of left wing politicians who do not share her views with regard to Israel and Zionism.

[2] In 2013 the Jewish National Fund planted a forest with 2,500 trees in her honor in Yatir, in the Negev.

.- In 2017 She won the Ramon Llull de les Lletres Catalanes prize, awarded by Planeta, the most important prize in Catalan literature, for her novel Rosa de Cendra Until the summer of 2013, the English and Spanish version of Pilar Rahola's CV on her website claimed that she had received a PhD in Spanish and Catalan Philology from the University of Barcelona.

When this misinformation was brought to her attention she claimed it was due an error when translating her original Catalan CV.