ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mercè Rodoreda (1908–1983) is widely regarded as the most important Catalan writer of the twentieth century. Exiled in France and Switzerland following the Spanish Civil War, Rodoreda began writing the novels and short stories—Twenty-Two Short Stories, The Times of the Doves, Camellia Street, Garden by the Sea—that would eventually make her internationally famous, while at the same time earning a living as a seamstress. In the mid-1960s she returned to Catalonia, where she continued to write. Death in Spring and The Selected Stories of Mercè Rodoreda are also available from Open Letter.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS
Maruxa Relaño is a journalist and English-language translator working from Spanish and Catalan. She was a translator for the Wall Street Journal and wrote for the New York Daily News, New York Sun, New York Magazine, Newsday, and Hoy Newspaper, among others. Her recent co-translations include the novels A Man of His Word by Imma Monsó and The Sea by Blai Bonet.
Martha Tennent is an English-language translator who works primarily from Catalan and Spanish. She was born in the United States, but has lived most of her life in Barcelona. She received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for her translation of The Selected Stories of Mercè Rodoreda. Her work has appeared in Epiphany, Two Lines, Words Without Borders, A Public Space, World Literature Today, PEN America, and Review of Contemporary Fiction.