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Your memories.

That is the latest release of the Barcelona writer Nuria Amat, whom Juan Goytisolo called "the best novelist of the moment, although boycotted by a kind of macho paternalism."

as a lover, as a writer, as a friend", justifies one of the most renowned Catalan authors in Spanish.

For Amat, literature is not only a vocation but a life option.

It has led him to live in several countries in Europe and Latin America and to befriend some of the most important writers of the 20th century, such as Gabriel García Márquez, Juan Goytisolo, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Samuel Beckett and Susan Sontag. .

In the pages of

- which she publishes in La Esfera de los Libros on April 20 - all those names parade, among

Although in the 1980s she was not within the circle of Vargas Llosa-Gabo, but rather among those who liked it (almost laughable to admit it) to criticize the group of artists and intellectuals of the so-called Gauche Divine in Barcelona, ​​she was one of the guests at the speech Vargas Llosa's Nobel reception in 2010 (although he ultimately did not attend)

where he officially introduced his new partner, Isabel Preysler.

Amat together with Vargas LlosaE.M.

In her memoirs, Nuria Amat offers a daring confession that begins in a family environment of relevance in the cultural life of the country:

and her paternal grandfather a prominent politician from Republican and Francoist Barcelona.

And, for the first time outside of fiction, Ella Amat talks about a childhood marked by the death of her mother and the mistreatment of her older brother, a trauma that she did not identify for many years, and psychological therapies after her.

And

the Colombian writer Óscar Collazos, the architect Jordi Garcés, parents of his two daughters Laia and Bruna, and a mysterious Tristán.

And of her other conquests, although much less than those attributed to her by her colleagues, she herself laughs in the book.

Or his passion for dancing.

Dancing was my emotional lifesaver. Dancing is something natural in my life. I never felt ashamed to go out into the ring. On a terrace of the Monumental bullring I started one night for rumbas. Another memorable occasion was when with Pepe Ribas and Miguel Bosé we ended up in an

at the Meridiana. There was hardly a soul left. The place was dark as night,

. Once in the center, under the spotlight, we danced together and alone an immensity of time that flew by. We became friends and we continue to love each other in the distance".

Nuria and her great friend Miguel BoséE.M.

The book, written during the pandemic, ends with a certain aftertaste of disappointment in her role as a political activist, who has been swinging from socialism

for mayor of Barcelona.

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