Ada Castells
{{Short description|Catalan professor, writer and journalist}}
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Ada Castells Ferrer or Ada Castells (born 28 November 1968) is a Catalan professor, writer and journalist.
Life
Castells was born in Barcelona in 1968.
Her first novel El dit de l'àngel involved her Protestant ancestors. It was published in Catalan (and Spanish) in 1998.{{cite book|author=Ada Castells Ferrer|title=El dit de l'àngel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_UqLVC0YpqQC|date=15 February 2010|publisher=Grup 62|isbn=978-84-9787-630-8}}
Castells was a professor in 1999. In 2004, her novel about the German painter Caspar David Friedrich, "Tota La Vida", was published.{{Cite web|url=https://bibliotecavirtual.diba.cat/club-del-llibre/ada-castells|title=Ada Castells - Biblioteca Virtual|website=bibliotecavirtual.diba.cat|access-date=2019-10-12}} In 2010 she had teaching obligations at two universities and other colleges.{{Cite web|url=https://campusdescriptura.com/CA/professorat/21/Ada-castells|title=Escola d'escriptura Ateneu Barcelonès|website=campusdescriptura.com|access-date=2019-10-01}}
Her 2012 book Pura Sang (Pure Blood) was set in Minorca{{Cite book|url=https://www.grup62.cat/llibre-pura-sang/94760|title=Pura sang - Ada Castells Ferrer |publisher= Grup62|language=ca-es}} and it won the 32nd Premi Sant Joan Unnim for Catalan literature.{{cite book|author=Ada Castells Ferrer|title=Pura sang|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HsUSTJ1S5SIC|date=3 October 2012|publisher=Grup 62|isbn=978-84-297-6995-1}} Her 2019 novel "Mare" involves the differing memories of a woman and her daughter.
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External links
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Category:Journalists from Barcelona
Category:Academics from Barcelona
Category:Spanish women journalists
Category:21st-century Spanish writers
Category:21st-century Spanish women writers
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