Teresa Solana i Mir (born 15 May 1962 in Barcelona, Spain) in Who is Who of Catalan letters. Retrieved on 2017-06-30. is a contemporary Spanish writer of crime fiction in Catalan. She studied philosophy and the Classics at Universitat de Barcelona.. Catalan publisher's author bio. Retrieved on 2017-06-30. Her work has been translated to English, French, German, Esperanto, Italian, Spanish, Hindi and Romanian
Teresa Solana started her professional career as a translator, mainly from French and English. She was the director of the translation center in Tarassona between 1998 and 2004. She also wrote various articles and essays on translation.
In 2006 she published her first novel, Un crim imperfecte, for which she received the Premi Brigada 21 prize. This is the first story in which there appear the twin investigators Eduard and Borja Masdéu. Afterwards she published Drecera al paradís with the same protagonists. In 2010 she published her first, and up to now only, short story collection, Set casos de sang i fetge i una història d'amor. In 2013 she participated in the Edgar Allan Poe Award with the story 'Natura quasi morta 41'. She also published the novel Negres tempestes in which for the first time stars the investigator Norma Forester and with which she won the 3rd Premi Crims de Tinta prize. In 2011 she published L'hora del zen, another story with Eduard and Borja as protagonists. In early 2014 there appeared her seventh novel, La casa de les papallones, protagonized by Norma Forester. Campanes de boda (2016) includes the twin investigators again. Matèria grisa, also a crime novel, won the 19th Premi Roc Boronat prize.
Bibliography
Novels 2006 - Un crim imperfecte 2007 - Drecera al paradís 2010 - Negres tempestes 2011 - L'hora zen 2014 - La casa de les papallones 2016 - Campanades de boda 2019 - Octubre
Short stories
2010 - Set casos de sang i fetge i una història d'amor 2017 - Matèria grisa
Children's books
2014 - Sèrie Supernyaps: I La invasió misteriosa 2014 - Sèrie Supernyaps: II A la recerca de l’aigua perduda 2015 - Sèrie Supernyaps: III L’amenaça zombi 2015 - Sèrie Supernyaps: IV Els viatgers del temps
Translations
1995 - Sir Mortimer Wheeler, El arte y la arquitectura de Roma 1996 - VVAA, Diccionario de las mitologías: La mitología griega, vol. II, 1996 - Sabine Melchior-Bonnet, Historia del espejo 1996 - Mª Àngels Anglada, Relatos de mitología. Los dioses 1996 - Mª Àngels Anglada, Relatos de mitología. Los héroes 1997 - VVAA, Diccionario de las mitologías: De la Roma arcaica a los sincretismos tardíos, vol. III. 1997 - Peter Vardy, Kierkegaard 1997 - Stephen Plant, Simone Weil 1997 - Wilfred MacGreal, San Juan de la Cruz 1998 - VVAA, Diccionario de las mitologías: Las mitologías de Europa, vol. IV 1999 - Anonymous text from XIV, La nube del no saber 1999 - VVAA, Diccionario de las mitologías: Las mitologías de Asia, vol. V 2002 - VVAA, Diccionario de las mitologías: Las mitologías de América, África y Oceanía, vol VI
2003 - Jimmie Holland and Sheldon Lewis, La cara humana del cáncer 2004 - Jean-Yves Hayez, La destructividad en el niño y el adolescente: clínica y seguimiento 2004 - Pierre Hadot, Plotino o la simplicidad de la mirada 2004 - Dawn Ades, Dalí (Catalogue of the Dalí Exhibition in the Palazzo Grassi in Venice) 2005 - Danièle Hervieu-Léger, La religión, hilo de memoria 2005 - Juan Goytisolo, 'Bouvard y Pécuchet sobre los pasos de Cervantes''' 2006 - Michael Heim, Pautas para traducir textos de ciencias sociales 2007 - VVAA, Neoimpresionosmo, La eclosión de la modernidad. 2007 - Juan Goytisolo, L'arrel de tots els mals 2007 - Robin Lane Fox, Alejandro Magno 2007 - Teresa Solana, Un crimen imperfecto 2007 - Teresa Solana, Atajo al paraíso. 2008 - Andoni Gràcia, Chulo, retrato de un autor 2008 - VVAA, Yves Tanguy, El universo surrealista 2008 - Marta Montmany Madurell, Colección de diseño industrial del Museo de las Artes Decorativas 2010 - Kenizé Mourad, A la ciutat d'or i d'argent 2011 - Teresa Solana, Negres Tormentas 2011 - Donna Leon, Conclusions preliminars 2015 - Judith Jonhson i Karl Lewkowicz, Adéu Barcelona 2019 - Catalog for Bordeaux Museum of Fine Arts 2021 - Catalog for the Museon Arlated of Arles 2023 - Carolyn Wells, L’home que va caure a través de la terra 2023 - Grant Allen, Un milionari africà 2023 - Shane Steves, Ciutat morta 2024 - Ethel Lina White, A tota màquina 2024 - David Goodis, La lluna sobre l’asfaltTranslated into English 2008 - A Not So Perfect Crime (Un crim imperfecte, 2006) translated by Peter Bush 2011 - A Shortcut to Paradise (Drecera al paradis, 2007) translated by Peter Bush 2013 - The Sound of One Hand Killing (L'hora zen, (2011) translated by Peter Bush 2013 - Crazy Tales of Blood and Guts (Set casos de sang i fetge i una història d'amor, 2010) translated by Peter Bush 2018 - The First Prehistoric Serial Killer (Matèria grisa, 2017) translated by Peter Bush 2024 - Black Storms (Negres tempestes, 2010) translated by Peter Bush 2026 - The House of Butterflies (La casa de les papallones, 2014) translated by Peter Bush Awards 2007 - Brigada 21 Prize for Un crim imperfecte (A Not So Perfect Crime) for the best original novel in Catalan 2010 - Crims de Tinta Award, organised by the Ministry of Interior of the Generalitat of Catalonia 2013 - Shortlisted for the Edgar Allan Poe Awards for the short story Natura quasi morta 41 (Still Life No. 41) in Set casos de sang i fetge i una història d’amor (Crazy Tales of Blood and Guts) 2017 - Roc Boronat XIX Award for the anthology of short stories Matèria grisa (The First Prehistoric Serial Killer) 2019 - Shortlisted for the CWA Dagger Awards for the short story I Detest Mozart in The First Prehistoric Serial Killer 2024 - Margarida Aritzeta-Vila de Creixell Prize for Carpe diem''
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