Isabel
Clara Simo

Isabel-Clara Simó (1943-2020) was a writer and journalist. With degrees in Philosophy and Journalism, and a PhD in Romance Philology, her journalistic work includes the period she spent working as editor of the weekly Canigó, the articles she regularly publishes in the written press and her radio and television appearances. She has also been Head of Books in the Department of Culture of the Generalitat (Government) of Catalonia, a lecturer at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, and vice-president for Catalonia of Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (AELC – Association of Catalan Language Writers). Since winning the Víctor Català Prize in 1978 with her first book, És quan miro que hi veig clar, she has published about fifty other works embracing almost all the genres: novel, short story, young people's literature, theatre, poetry, radio and television scripts, collected articles, essay, memoirs…