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Maria de la Pau Janer

Biography

Maria de la Pau Janer was born in Palma se Mallorca in 1966. Her father is the writer Gabriel Janer Manila. She studied at the Colegio Pedro Poveda and the Instituto Ramon Llull and earned a doctorate in Catalan philology. She has since written several well-received novels, children’s books and non-fiction and has appeared on television, primarily on cultural programmes. She also stood for Parliament for the Partido Popular.

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Maria de la Pau Janer
Maria de la Pau Janer (in Spanish)
Maria de la Pau Janer obtiene el Planeta en una polémica edición (in Spanish)
Maria de la Pau Janer (in Catalan)
Maria de la Pau Janer (in Catalan)

Bibliography

1988 Els ulls d’ahir (novel)
1989 L’hora dels eclipsis (novel)
1991 L’illa d’Omar (children’s)
1992 Les rondalles del cicle de l’espòs transformat ( five volumes) (essay)
1993 Màrmara (novel)
1995 Natura d’anguila (novel)
1995 El mite del Comte Arnau. Propostes didàctiques (essay)
1997 La bruixa que va perdre un secret (children’s)
1997 Orient, Occident. Dues històries d’amor (stories)
1999 Lola (novel)
2001 Ets la meva vida, ets la meva mort (novel)
2001 Barbablava: l’heroi, el monstre (essay)
2001 Mallorca: l’illa de les mil i una nits. Carta a un estranger que ens visita (travel)
2002 Las mujeres que hay en mí (novel)
2002 Els deu manaments de la felicitat (essay)
2005 Perfils mediterranis (articles)
2005 Pasiones romanas [Roman Passions]
2010 Cartas que siempre esperé (novel)
2015 Quan siguis lliure (novel)