Writers and Barcelona
Barcelona has been and keeps being a perfect scene for literary works, a source of inspiration for writers who were born here and a welcoming place for writers from around the world who have described it in their books.
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Mercè IBARZ
(Saidí, Baix Cinca, 1954)
A writer and jounalist, she is a specialist on the figures of Mercè Rodoreda and Luis Buñuel. She is author of essays such as Mercè Rodoreda: un retrat (1991, critics award Serra d'Or) and Tierra sin pan: Buñuel i els nous camins de les avantguardes (1999), as well as works of fiction such as No parlis de mi quan me'n vagi (2010), Febre de carrer (2005) and A la ciutat en obres (2002), a book in which the author sets one of the stories in a house on Barcelona’s Eixample. She has been living in Barcelona since 1971.
William IRISH (Cornell WOOLRICH)
(New York, 1903 – 1968)
A North American crime novelist, Cornell Woolrich signs his work under the pen name of William Irish. In 1947 he published the short story One night in Barcelona. Portraying the districts of the Eixample and Ciutat Vella as his settings, the story was initially published in the Mystery Book Magazine and later in the work Los sanguinarios y los atrapados (1986).