Lluïsa Cunillé Salgado (Badalona, 1961) is a Spanish playwright who writes in Spanish and Catalan. In 2010, she became the first woman to be awarded the National Dramatic Literature Award by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
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Biography
editLluïsa Cunillé Salgado was born in 1961.[1]
A student of the playwright José Sanchis Sinisterra, she trained in the textual dramaturgy seminars given by him at the Sala Beckett in Barcelona between 1990 and 1993.[2] In 1991, she won the runners-up prize for the Ignasi Iglésias Award for Bern and the Calderón de la Barca Award for Rodeo (premiered in 1992).[3]
Cunillé founded the company L'Hongaresa in 1993 together with the playwright and stage director Paco Zarzoso and the actress and director Lola López.[2] In collaboration with Paco Zarzoso, she has written and premiered Intempèrie (1996), Viajeras (2001), and Húngaros (2002).[3] Cunillé was one of fifteen authors who wrote the production Sopa de Radio, a programme with which Cadena SER commemorated the 75th anniversary of the birth of radio in Spain.[2]
Cunillé premiered numerous theatrical works in Catalan and in Spanish: Molt novembre (1993), La festa (1994), Libración (1994, Barcelona Critics Award 1993-1994), Accident (1996, Award of the Institution of Lletres Catalanes, 1997), Apocalipsi (1998), The affair (1999, Ciutat d'Alcoi Award 1998), La cita (1999), Passage Gutenberg (2000, Barcelona Critic Award 1999-2000), Vacants (2000 ), El gat negre (2001), L'anniversari (2001, Premi Born de Teatre 1999), and Aquel aire infinito (2003), Barcelona, mapa d'ombres (2004), among many others.[3] She won, among others, the Ciutat de Lleida theatre award (1997) with Doze treballs; the Premio Ciudad de Barcelona (2005) with Barcelona, mapa d'ombres; the Premios Max Award for the best playwright in Spanish (2007) also for Barcelona, mapa d'ombres; the Lletra D'Or Award (2008) for Après moi, le déluge. The Generalitat de Catalunya awarded her the Premio Nacional de Teatro de Cataluña in 2007. [2]
References
edit- ^ "Lluïsa Cunillé". Oxford Reference. doi:10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095653330. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
- ^ a b c d "About Lluïsa Cunillé, by Care Santos". Elcultural.com (in Spanish). 27 June 1999. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
- ^ a b c "Institut Ramon Llull". llull.cat (in Spanish).
External links
edit- Lluïsa Cunillé, via escriptors.cat (English)