María Lynch
Casanovas & Lynch Literary Agency
maria@casanovaslynch.com
www.casanovaslynch.com
Montserrat Roig, born in Barcelona in the early Francoist period, studied Philosophy and Literature, was a lecturer in Spanish at the University of Bristol, and worked as a journalist. She was always guided by her concern for historical reparations, for women’s equality, and for social justice. Despite dying prematurely from a cancer—at forty-five—she left us an extensive and widely admired body of work in documentary essays and prose. Roig’s work is reminiscent of authors such as Svetlana Alexievich, both because of the time period and because of its focus on bringing historical memory to the forefront, rethinking the recent past, and offering a social portrait of her city. Both in her novels and her non-fiction, Roig has a talent for blending personal, social, and political elements in a literary voice uniquely poised to capture the reverberations of history.
«Roig often acquired mastery through feeling; she considered emotion just as valid and, in fact, an essential counterpart to reason.»
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