Rosa Regàs was bid farewell this Saturday in a ceremony attended by some 300 folks, during which spiritual symbols have been absent, on the author’s specific want, and which started with the Riego Hymn.
The Áltima funeral house, situated on Ronda de Dalt in Barcelona, hosted the ceremony, which was attended by household and pals of the author, who died on Wednesday on the age of 90 at her residence in Llofriu (Girona), representatives of politics, the publishing and literary world.
Rosa Regàs was fired this Saturday in a ceremony attended by round 300 folks, together with the mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni.
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The Riego Hymn started the ceremony in a room during which, on the author’s specific want, there was no crucifix, and during which two of her 5 youngsters, Anna and Mariona, praised the determine of their mom, a lady they described as “very highly effective.”
As well as, two of her grandchildren and a niece have recalled the RTVE collection Abuela de verano, primarily based on the connection between Rosa Regàs and her grandchildren at her residence in Llofriu and starring Rosa Maria Sardà.
Jordi Hereu, Salvador Illa, Jaume Collboni and Ada Colau
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Two screens have captured numerous pictures of the author accompanied all through her life by personalities from totally different fields, in addition to by her household.
Among the many personalities who got here to see off Rosa Regàs have been the Minister of Business and Tourism and former mayor of Barcelona, Jordi Hereu; the primary secretary of the PSC, Salvador Illa; the mayor of Barcelona, Jordi Collboni; and the previous mayor and chief of the Commons, Ada Colau.
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The overall director of the Planeta group, Josep Creuheras, and publicist Lluís Bassat, amongst others, have been additionally current.
Lots of them agreed in highlighting the energy and willpower of the author and of a “excellent pal”, who they stated “lived intensely”, in accordance with Josep Creuheras.
Salvador Illa has emphasised Regàs’ dedication to society “and to left-wing values”, whereas the mayor of Barcelona has underlined her feminism, progressive values and dedication to society.
Rosa Regàs’ grandchildren throughout her funeral
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For Ada Colau, she was a “hyperactive” and “beneficiant” lady who left a legacy in her books and “of affection for freedom and life”, along with particularly praising her honesty and the truth that “she by no means took a again seat and stated what she thought irrespective of how uncomfortable it could be”.
Born in Barcelona on 11 November 1933, Regàs gained the Nadal Prize in 1994 for her novel Azul, in 2001 she gained the Planeta Prize for her thriller novel, La Canción de Dorotea, and in 2013 she gained the Biblioteca Breve Prize for her novel Música de Cámara.
Earlier than devoting himself to writing, Regàs labored on the publishing home Seix Barral from 1964 to 1970, when he based the publishing home La Gaya Ciencia, a label that printed books on literature, politics, economics, philosophy, poetry and structure; the magazines Arquitecturas Bis and Cuadernos de la Gaya Ciencia (1976) and Ediciones Bausán, devoted to youngsters’s literature.
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Along with her publishing and literary exercise, with greater than twenty books, Rosa Regàs had labored as a translator for the United Nations in Geneva and was additionally director of the Nationwide Library of Spain from 2004 to 2007.
His newest novel was Música de Cámara (2013), with which he gained the Biblioteca Breve Prize, though lately he had written extra essays, comparable to Contra la tiranía del dinero (2012).
Rosa Regàs was farewelled this Saturday in a ceremony attended by some 300 folks, together with the previous mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau
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In 2014 he printed Between Widespread Sense and Delirium (Ara Llibres), the primary a part of his memoirs, which continued with A Lengthy Adolescence (2015) and Pals Endlessly (2016).
In 2024, on the age of 90, his newest ebook, Un legado, was printed, during which he gave an in depth account of the essential episodes of his life and his time within the publishing and cultural sector, with particular point out of pals comparable to Juan Benet, Carlos Barral and Jaime Gil de Biedma.
