Marcela Topor

{{Short description|Romanian journalist}}

{{Infobox person

|name = Marcela Topor

|image = Marcela_Topor_2016.jpg

|caption = Topor in 2016

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1976|09|08|df=y}}

|birth_place = Vaslui, Romania

|occupation = Journalist

|known_for = editor of Catalonia Today

|spouse = {{marriage|Carles Puigdemont|2000}}

|children = 2

|alma_mater = Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

|}}

Marcela Topor ({{IPA|ro|marˈtʃela toˈpor}}; born 8 September 1976)[http://adevarul.ro/locale/vaslui/cine-prima-doamna-cataloniei-romanca-numita-regina-independentei-1_59d1ebf85ab6550cb8bb436a/index.html "Cine este 'prima-doamnă' a Cataloniei" ("Who is the 'first lady' of Catalonia")] {{in lang|ro}}, Adevărul, 2 October 2017Ponsatí-Murlà, Oriol. [https://bellaterra.cat/tag/marcela-topor/ Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó, de la lluna a la Generalitat]. Bellaterra.cat. [Retrieved october 16, 2017] is a Romanian journalist, and the wife of Catalan politician and journalist Carles Puigdemont, the former President of Catalonia's Generalitat. She holds a degree in English philology from the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași. Topor first met her future husband at the International Festival of Amateur Theatre of Girona in 1996, in which she participated as an actress with the Ludic Theatre company.Pastells, Josep. [http://www.ara.cat/politica/Actriu-filologa-periodista-dorigen-romanes_0_1503449696.html Actriu, filòloga, periodista... i primera dama d’origen romanès]. Ara.cat, Januari 13, 2016. [Retrieved January 16, 2016]«[http://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/telenoticies/marcela-topor-la-dona-del-president-de-la-generalitat/video/5576869/ Marcela Topor, la dona del expresidente de la Generalitat]». 324.cat, Januari 11, 2016. [Retrieved January 16, 2016] They married in 2000.{{cite news|last1=Couzens|first1=Gerard|title=Carles Puigdemont actress wife 'LEAVES family home' as Catalonia on brink of independence|url=https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/871341/Carles-Puigdemont-wife-Marcela-Topor-leaves-family-home-Catalonia-Catalan-indepedence|accessdate=14 November 2019|work=Daily Express|date=26 October 2017|location=London, UK}}

Topor is the editor of Catalonia Today, an English-language magazine and website based in Girona. She also hosts the television programme Catalan Connections, which features interviews in English with resident foreigners in Catalonia, broadcast on the El Punt Avui TV channel and posted to the Catalonia Today website.Gordillo, Saül. [http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/politica/marcela-topor-esposa-carles-puigdemont-4806241 Así es Marcela Topor, la esposa del 'president' Carles Puigdemont]. El Periódico, Januari 13, 2016. [Retrieved January 16, 2016]Elies, Miriam. [http://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20160110/301310796664/marcela-topor-nueva-primera-dama-catalunya.html Marcela Topor, la nueva "primera dama" de Catalunya]. La Vanguardia, 7 January 2016. [Retrieved 16 January 2016]

The couple has two daughters. Topor speaks Spanish, English, Romanian, and Catalan.