Sílvia Soler
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| name = Sílvia Soler
| birth_name = Sílvia Soler i Guasch
| image = Sílvia Soler i Guasch (2017; cropped 2025).jpg
| caption = Soler in 2025
| birth_date = 1961
| birth_place = Figueres
| known_for = Writing
}}
Sílvia Soler i Guasch (born 1961) is a Spanish writer and journalist who writes in Catalan. In 2013, her novel L’estiu que comença was awarded the Ramon Llull Novel Award.
Early life and education
Sílvia Soler i Guasch was born on 5 October,{{Cite web |title=Sílvia Soler i Guasch {{!}} enciclopedia.cat |url=https://www.enciclopedia.cat/gran-enciclopedia-catalana/silvia-soler-i-guasch |access-date=2023-02-03 |website=Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana}} 1961, in Figueres.{{Cite web |last=Dalmases |first=Irene |date=2013-02-01 |title=La figuerenca Sílvia Soler obté el Llull amb una de les seves novel·les serioses |url=https://www.diaridegirona.cat/cultura/2013/02/01/figuerenca-silvia-soler-obte-llull-49335192.html |access-date=2023-02-03 |website=Diari de Girona |language=ca}} Her mother is the writer Carme Guasch, her brother the journalist Toni Soler i Guasch. She has a degree in information science.
Career
As a journalist, Soler has worked for the radio, press, and television.{{Cite web |title=Sílvia Soler |url=https://www.planetadelibros.com/autor/silvia-soler/000003941 |access-date=2023-02-03 |website=PlanetadeLibros |language=es-es}} She has written for such newspapers as Avui, Punt Diari and Presència. With time, she began to put more focus on book writing.{{Cite web |title=Sílvia Soler |url=https://www.ara.cat/firmes/silvia_soler/ |access-date=2023-02-03 |website=Ara}}
Soler has written over twenty books, chiefly novels. Her fiction debut, Semblava de vidre (1984), won the Recull award. She is also the recipient of premi Fiter i Rossell for Mira’m als ulls and the Prudenci Bertrana Prize for Petons de diumenge. In 2013, Soler was awarded the Ramon Llull Novel Award for L’estiu que comença,{{Cite web |date=2017-06-22 |title=Sílvia Soler |url=https://www.cccb.org/es/participantes/ficha/silvia-soler/227061 |access-date=2023-02-03 |website=CCCB |language=es}} a novel about a fifty years long friendship between a man and a woman.
Soler's novel 39+1. L’edat en què una dona sap que l’home de la seva vida és ella mateixa (2005) was adapted for television.
Works
= Fiction =
- Semblava de vidre,1984
- Arriben els ocells de nit, 1985
- Ramblejar, 1992
- El centre exacte de la nit, 1992
- El son dels volcans, 1999
- L’arbre de Judes, 2001
- Mira’m als ulls, 2004
- 39+1. L’edat en què una dona sap que l’home de la seva vida és ella mateixa, 2005
- 39+1+1: Enamorar-se és fàcil, si saps com, 2007
- Petons de diumenge, 2008
- Una família fora de sèrie, 2010
- Un creuer fora de sèrie, 2012
- Bàsquet, scrabble i tu, 2012 (young adult fiction written with son, Ferran Muñoz)
- L’estiu que comença, 2013
- Un any i mig, 2015
- Els vells amics, 2017
- Rellotges de sol, 2018
- El fibló, 2019
- Nosaltres, després, 2021
= Non-fiction =
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Category:Women writers from Catalonia
Category:Journalists from Catalonia
Category:Novelists from Catalonia
Category:Catalan-language writers
Category:20th-century Spanish women writers