She is 83 years old, can hardly see or hear, is the mother of triplets... This is the Catalan creator of The Three Twins

• Anniversary Mingote, the genius of humor who left the Army to paint and ended up being a marquis

A few years ago,

cycle

.

He was about to die.

Due to that accident

That is the worst punishment that could happen to the author of

, whose life she has been capturing in drawings that have affected several generations in

Despite the regrets, the author

As a child, she suffered the authoritarianism of a staunch

father and Doña Pilar, her school teacher who

until she began to cry.

That bug she doesn't have good memories of is the

She always forbade everything.

She embittered his existence.

Roser was very tired of being a girl.

She was always given orders, she had to go to

, the priest threatened them with

, she ate

and was so cold that her chilblains were an extension of her body.

But even so, she considers that she had

She still lingers in her mind the smell of the lemon tree in the garden or the plays she performed at home with her four brothers.

The illustrator Roser Capdevila, in an image from 2011.EFE

He grew up

of Barcelona where he learned to escape from the gray reality with the colors of his comics.

At the age of 13,

because she wanted to run away from her, but they declined to help her.

She managed to perform

where adolescent girls were taught to darn underpants and socks for their future husbands.

However, what Roser longed for was the passport to become independent.

as a chacha and in her spare time she read the adventures of Heidi.

She realized that there were other worlds.

She wanted to be free!

In the Swiss country she learned to think for herself.

In Spain she had only been educated to

.

The happiest day of his life was the birth in 1969 of

his source of inspiration for these stories that he began to write in 1983. Such was the success that they were translated into

​​and a television series that

The writer Mercè Company suggested the idea to him and Iceland was the first country in the world to broadcast the series.

This hard editorial work

but she has never flaunted anything.

She has continued to work,

until he passed away, he has helped his daughters, plays with his grandchildren, keeps alive the spirit of the people of his generation and loves the smell of paper.

After so much time, her daughters continue to give her ideas so that the spirit of the three twins remains intact.

On the father's side there are also illustrious names.

(59) and also Manuel Valls Gorina.

But Roser has always wanted to trace his own path, which has been recognized with the

and the Medal of Honor of the Parliament of Catalonia.

Despite what he suffered, he has not lost his sense of humor or irony.

Recently, in an interview in RAC 1 he confessed that "in my diary I draw the politicians sitting on the toilet with the paper with the four bars".

She is currently

in the world, surpassing Mercè Rodoreda.

In 2011 she donated her archive made up of more than 3,000 drawings, prints, lithographs and stories to the Biblioteca de Catalunya.

Her last published book is a kind of memoir,

.

If the wind blows in favor, new chapters of the most famous triplets will be broadcast again, with the permission of those who made the choir to Julio Iglesias.

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