Caterina Albert was born in l’Escala in 1869 and she died there in 1966. She is known by her pseudonym Víctor Català. She was a catalan writer (novelist, narrator, theatre writer and poetess), novels writer and winner of one of the “Jocs Florals” prize. She uses the name of Víctor Català, the name of the protagonist of one of her unfinished novels, so she could write, as women weren’t able to do it. 

She was from a family of rural proprietaries, she had an isolated life and she never left her original location. She started to paint, read and write as hobbies, so she was a self-taught person, following the literary ideas of the modernism. 

She became famous in literature with her real name Caterina Albert in the “Jocs Florals” in 1998 done in Olot, where she was awarded because of the best poem and because a monologue (La Infanticida). This one was a scandal because of its topic and because of the tone that it was written, that it increased when the jury knew that it was written by a woman, and from that moment she decided to sign with the mal pseudonym “Víctor Català” and she became one of the best prose writers of the catalan literature of all times.

Her works have had a crucial influence in the twentieth century narrative development. Her most known work is Solitud (1909). Her narrative work is built up in four stages, separated in long periods of silence with no clear reason. She escaped from realism and objectivity of the cientifics of the time and created a totally mythic universe in her novels, with black character, brutal and apocalyptic, that contrasted the cheerful and espontany personality of the writer. Her works are marked by a social character, with a  gruff and chaotic landscape where men, in general bad and weak. lives radically alone and headed toward fatalism. The situations presented are normally cases that end in violent and cruel deads, that the writer describes with a cold and distant tone, with some black humor. She wrote about topics like insanity, violence, the environment care, the women paper in society, the destiny, etc. She ended by having fame thanks to the surprise and unease of the critics in front of the situation of a woman that wrote with persistence and expressive power that were qualified as “viriles”. 

The name of the street in Girona was proposed by its local government, and although at first it was proposed the pseudonym of the writer (Víctor Català), the mayor of the moment didn't think that it was convenient that a pseudonym entered in the catalogue of names of the city, so he finally decided to put the real name of the writer.