Biography

In 1972 she established herself in the town of Romanyà de la Selva, Girona in the house of friend Carme Manrubia. She lived there until her death and it's where she wrote her final novels "Mirall Trencat" (1974) or "Quanta, Quanta Guerra..." (1980). She is interred in that town's cemetery.

Her only son, Jordi Gurguí, was born in 1929.

During exile, she established with other Catalan writers and intellectuals in Roissy-en-Brie, in the East of France, where she fell in love with Catalan writer and literary critic Armand Obiols, who became her longtime companion until his death in 1971.

Due to having written in Catalan and for a few leftist publications, Rodoreda exiled to France in 1939. Thinking it would be a matter of months, she left her son with her mother and he grew up with her. Although she came back to Barcelona briefly on a few occasions afterwards, she did not return to reside in Spain until 1972.

She disowned her first four novels, written between 1932 and 1936, considering them too amateurish. She considered her first literary work the novel Aloma, which was first published in 1938. She extensively rewrote it and republished it in 1969.