Beatriz de Moura

Beatriz de Moura
Born1939 (1939)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died17 April 2026(2026-04-17) (aged 86–87)
Barcelona, Spain
EducationUniversity of Geneva
OccupationsPublisher
Translator

Beatriz de Moura (1939 – 17 April 2026) was a Brazilian-born Spanish publisher and translator.[1]

Life and career

Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1939, de Moura grew up in a family of diplomats and travelled often in her youth.[2] She studied at the University of Geneva.[3] She moved to Catalonia in 1961 and worked for numerous publishing houses in Barcelona, a time during which she also became close with Esther Tusquets.[4] In 1968, she married Òscar Tusquets, with whom she co-founded Tusquets Editores the following year.[5][6] Their first two publications were collective works titled Cuadernos ínfimos and Cuadernos Marginales.[7] Situated on Barcelona's Avinguda Diagonal,[8] the publishing house translated numerous works into Spanish.[9] They also distributed works by Spanish authors such as Octavio Paz, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Jorge Luis Borges.[10][11]

De Moura was credited with the worldwide distribution of Spanish authors such as Enrique Vila-Matas, Javier Cercas, and Fernando Aramburu.[12][13] She also translated works from French into Spanish, such as Identity and Ignorance by Milan Kundera.[14] In 2012, she signed an agreement with Grupo Planeta to manage Tusquets Editores and in 2017, she donated the publishing house's archives to the Biblioteca Nacional de España.[15]

De Moura died in Barcelona on 17 April 2026.[16]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Gómez Ruiz, Lara (17 April 2026). "Muere Beatriz de Moura, fundadora de Tusquets". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 April 2026.
  2. ↑ Cortés, Josep Maria (17 April 2026). "Beatriz de Moura: la seva 'rive gauche' no era la 'gauche divine', va fundar Tusquets quan va arribar el Floquet de Neu". Crónica Global (in Catalan). Retrieved 22 April 2026.
  3. ↑ "Beatriz de Moura, creadora de editorial Tusquets". escritores.org (in Spanish). 29 July 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2026.
  4. ↑ "Beatriz de Moura". Filosofía (in Spanish).
  5. ↑ Revuelta, Laura (7 July 2019). "Beatriz de Moura: «Nada de lo que se escribe ahora me gusta. Todo me parece muy artificial»". ABC (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 April 2026.
  6. ↑ Ruiz Mantilla, Jesús (24 March 2012). "Beatriz de Moura: "Editar es como jugar a la ruleta"". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 April 2026.
  7. ↑ García, Fernando (5 July 2019). "Secretos y confidencias de Vargas Llosa, Gabo y Fernando Aramburu". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 April 2026.
  8. ↑ "¿Quiénes somos?". Tusquets Editores (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 3 November 2022.
  9. ↑ "Catalogo de Libros de Tusquets Editores". Tusquets Editores (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 13 June 2023.
  10. ↑ "Colecciones". Tusquets Editores (in Spanish).
  11. ↑ "Colección Andanzas". Planetade de Libros (in Spanish).
  12. ↑ Lorenci, Miguel (4 July 2019). "Tusquets, una feliz singladura editorial que empezó con un naufragio". Leonoticias (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 April 2026.
  13. ↑ Colomer, Álvaro (5 July 2019). "Beatriz de Moura, en el medio siglo de Tusquets: "Yo empecé a vivir con 30 años"". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 April 2026.
  14. ↑ Lorusso, Adriana (11 May 2017). "Beatriz de Moura, la mítica fundadora de Tusquets". Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 April 2026.
  15. ↑ Vila-Sanjuán, Sergio (11 October 2017). "Beatriz de Moura dona el archivo de editorial Tusquets a la Biblioteca Nacional de España". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 April 2026.
  16. ↑ Nopca, Jordi (17 April 2026). "Beatriz de Moura died, founder and soul of Tusquets publishing house". Ara. Retrieved 22 April 2026.
  17. ↑ "Beatriz de Moura Gurgel". Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (in Spanish).
  18. ↑ "Premio en México a la editora de Tusquets, Beatriz de Moura". El País (in Spanish). 26 October 1999. Retrieved 22 April 2026.
  19. ↑ "Las esperadas memorias de Beatriz de Moura". Negritas y cursivas (in Spanish). 1 November 2013. Retrieved 22 April 2026.
  20. ↑ "RELACIÓN DE PREMIADOS DEL AÑO 2009" (PDF). Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (in Spanish).
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