Rosa Regàs was bid farewell this Saturday in a secular ceremony attended by some 300 folks, wherein non secular symbols have been absent, on the author’s specific want. The funeral has begun with the Hymn of Riego unofficial anthem of the Second Republic that adopted the patriotic track of the column of Lieutenant Colonel Rafael del Riego in 1820 within the rebellion of Cabezas de San Juan to reestablish the Structure of the Cortes of Cádiz. Simply because the deceased wished, it was a easy ceremony the place ‘She’s leaving house’ by The Beatles and Schubert’s ‘String Quartet No. 14 in D minor’ also referred to as ‘Dying and the Maiden’ have been additionally performed.
The ultimate farewell to the Catalan author, who died on Wednesday on the age of 90 in her residence in Llofriu (Girona), has been referred to as for within the Áltima funeral house, positioned on the Ronda de Dalt in Barcelona to household and mates in addition to representatives of politics, the publishing and literary world such because 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, Jaume Collboni; and the previous mayor and chief of the Comuns, There’s a Colau. The overall director of the Planeta group, Josep Creuheras, and publicist Lluis Bassat have been additionally current.
In the course of the ceremony Two of her 5 youngsters, Anna and Mariona, have praised the determine of their mom, a girl who has been described as “very highly effective”. As well as, two of her grandchildren and a niece have recalled the RTVE sequence ‘Abuela de verano’, based mostly on the connection between Rosa Regàs and her grandchildren in her residence in Llofriu, which starred Rosa Maria Sardà within the fiction. Regàs has additionally been remembered by way of numerous two screens the place photographs of the author have been projected, accompanied by personalities from totally different fields in addition to by her household, all through her life.
An intense life
Lots of these current agreed in underlining the energy and firmness of the author and of a “superb buddy”, who they stated “lived intensely”, in accordance with Josep Creuheras. Salvador Illa has emphasised Regàs’ dedication to society “and to the values of the left”, whereas the mayor of Barcelona Jaume Collboni has underlined her feminism, progressive values and dedication to society. For Ada Colau she was above all a “hyperactive” and “beneficiant” girl who leaves a legacy in her books and “of affection for freedom and life”, in addition to particularly praising her honesty and the truth that “she by no means took a again seat and stated what she thought irrespective of how a lot it’d make folks uncomfortable”.
Born in Barcelona on November 11, 1933, Regàs gained the 1994 Nadal Prize for his novel ‘Azul’in 2001 he gained the Planeta Prize for a thriller novel, ‘Dorothea’s Track’and in 2013 he obtained the Biblioteca Breve Award for the novel ‘Chamber Music’Earlier than devoting himself to writing, Regàs labored on the Seix Barral publishing home, from 1964 to 1970, the yr wherein He based the publishing home La Gaya Cienciaa publishing home that revealed 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.
Rosa Regàs had additionally labored as a translator for the United Nations in Geneva and was additionally Director of the Nationwide Library of Spain from 2004 to 2007. Past the novel he had additionally devoted himself to essays with works resembling ‘In opposition to the tyranny of cash’ (2012)In 2014 he revealed ‘Between frequent sense and delirium’ (Ara Llibres), the primary a part of his memoirs, which continued with ‘An extended adolescence’ (2015) y ‘Buddies Endlessly’ (2016).
In 2024, his newest guide, ‘A Legacy’, was revealed, wherein 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 mates resembling Juan Benet, Carlos Barral and Jaime Gil de Biedma.
