Rosa Planas Ferrer


Rosa Planas Ferrer is a writer, philologist, literary critic and history researcher.

Biography

Planas Ferrer holds a PhD in Philology and Philosophy by UIB as well as two Licentiate degrees in Philosophy and Letters.
Rosa Planas publishes literary criticism articles for the Mallorcan press and for a variety of scholarly journals. Planas Ferrer is currently a regular collaborator for the Última Hora newspaper, and has served as member of the editorial board of Lluc and as the editorial secretary of Segell: Revista d'història i cultura jueves.
A bilingual author, her literary career started in poetry with Letras ''de Lluvia and Regreso a Belvedere. Since then Planas Ferrer has engaged in a prolific and intense production dealing both with historical and onomastic research as with fiction, authoring novels that are nuanced and rich in historical and literary references. Her first two novels, L'orador dels ocells and Abraham Savasorda received excellent reviews and reception by the readers. L'orador dels ocells was an award finalist at the 1999 Premi Ciutat de Palma, while in 2001 her novel Abraham Savasorda was awarded the I Premio Alexandre Ballester. Her literary activity reached its peak with two works published by Planeta: Las máscaras de Florencia, originally appeared both in Catalan and Spanish, and then translated to Russian ; and La ciutat dels espies indefensos, originally written in Catalan and translated to German on occasion of the Frankfurt [Book Fair,] in its edition dedicated to Catalan literature. Rosa Planas was invited to the Fair as a guest author.
Her research spans throughout a variety of subjects, from history and onomastics to literary essay and Jewish studies). Among her finest scholarly works are Els malnoms dels xuetes de Mallorca,, Literatura i holocaust: Aproximació a una escriptura de crisi, Introducción al patrimonio cultural, and Ramon Llull i l'alquímia. Regarding Raimon Llull, Planas published Del Doctor Il·luminat al Doctor Fosc: De Ramon Llull al Doctor Faust, comparing the philosopher and the myth of Faust; the biography of Mallorcan mystic Margarida Mas Pujol: Anna Maria del Santíssim Sagrament. Vull fer càtedra del teu cor ; an essay on books and libraries Libre entre Libros ; and a study on funerary death rituals in 19th century Mallorca, L'espectacle de la mort a la Mallorca del segle XIX.
Rosa Planas' literary works earned her the Ramon Llull Award, awarded by the Government of the Balearic Islands. In 2015, she was awarded a special mention by Amics del Patrimoni in recognition for her defense of Mallorca's cultural and artistic heritage.
In 2011 Planas Ferrer published La veu de la caputxa and in 2013 she was awarded the Premi Ciutat de Manacor Maria Antònia Oliver de Novel·la for Nòmina encriptada''.

Works

Poetry

Letras de Lluvia Regreso a Belvedere Calendari íntim Carta din viata inferiora , in Apostrof: Revista a uniunii scriitorilor, year XXVIII, 2017, n. 10. Translated to Romanian by Jana Balacciu Matei.

Novel

L'orador dels ocells Abraham Savasorda Las máscaras de Florencia, Catalan version.La ciutat dels espies indefensos La veu de la caputxa
  • ''Nòmina encriptada''

Essay

Els malnoms dels xuetes de Mallorca Literatura i Holocaust: Aproximació a una escriptura de crisi Introducción al patrimonio cultural Ramon Llull i l'alquímia Del Doctor Il·luminat al Doctor Fosc. De Ramon Llull al Doctor Faust, preface by Lola Badia Anna Maria del Santíssim Sagrament. Vull fer càtedra del teu cor Lliure entre Llibres, published by in Spanish as Libre entre Libros .
  • ''L’espectacle de la mort a la Mallorca del segle XIX''

Awards

  • Premi Alexandre Ballester de narrativa curta for Abraham Savasorda
  • Medalla Ramon Llull de la Comunitat de les Illes Balears.
  • Premi Ciutat de Manacor for Nòmina encriptada.