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Teresa Solana i Mir (born 15 May 1962 in Barcelona, Spain) is a contemporary Spanish writer of crime fiction in Catalan. She studied philosophy and the Classics at Universitat de Barcelona. 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






Translated 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




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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