LLORENÇ VILLALONGA was born in Palma de Majorca in Spain in 1897 and died in 1980. Fluent in Spanish and Catalan, he wrote fifteen novels, five books of short stories, and five volumes of drama, in addition to over five hundred articles for newspapers and magazines. The Dolls’ Room is widely considered to be his greatest work, and a masterpiece of post-war Catalan fiction. His narrative preoccupation with his personal and ancestral past has been compared to that of Marcel Proust and Giuseppe di Lampedusa.

 

DEBORAH BONNER received her BA degree from Cornell University and since then has worked as a translator in Catalan, Spanish, and English in Barcelona and New York.