Awarded by the Culture Association Nuoren Voiman Liitto to be a resident at Villa Sarkia in Finland.Ģ004. Awarded at the Shanghai Writing Program, hosted by the Shanghai Writer's Association.Ģ016. Awarded at the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators in Sweden.Ģ016. Awarded at the International Writers' and Translators' Center of Rhodes in Greece.Ģ017. Selected for a literary residence in Krakow UNESCO City of Literature, Poland.Ģ017. Fourth prize of the 5th Shanghai Get-together Writing Contest.Ģ018. Awarded at International Writer's and Translators' House in Latvia.Ģ018. Añó asks the reader to discover the 'deeper meaning' and to become involved in the events presented.Ģ019. Her novels cover a multitude of topics, treat actual and socially relevant problems such as injustices or poor communication between people and frequently, the core of her stories remains unexplained. The characters are the most important in her books, much more than the topic, due to 'an introspection, a reflection, not sentimental, but feminine'. Her writing focus on the characters' psychology, generally antiheroes.

Some of her novels, short stories and articles are translated into Spanish, French, English, Italian, German, Polish, Chinese, Latvian, Portuguese, Dutch and Greek. Her most recent work 'El salón de los artistas exiliados en California' is a biography of scriptwriter Salka Viertel, a Jewish salonnière and well-known in Hollywood in the thirties as a specialist on Greta Garbo scripts. 'L'escriptora morta', in 2008 'Núvols baixos', in 2009, and 'La mirada del fill', in 2012.

Her novel 'Els nens de l'Elisa' was third among the finalists for the 24th Ramon Llull Prize for Catalan Literature and was published in 2006. Núria Añó is a Catalan/Spanish writer, a translator and a regular speaker at conferences and symposia, where she gives papers on literary creation, films, cities or authors like Elfriede Jelinek, Patricia Highsmith, Salka Viertel, Karen Blixen, Alexandre Dumas or Franz Werfel.

Lowering Clouds by Núria Añó