She was born into a family passionate about music, she graduated in Classical Philology at the University of Barcelona, ​​and dedicated her life to teaching, and at the same time cultivating poetry and literary criticism. She was a regular contributor to Canigó, El pont, Reductions and 9 país. She also wrote a novel with her husband, Jordi Geli, and won the Josep Pla Award for her storytelling role in 1978, in 1958 the Lletra d'Or Prize and the National Critics' Prize, and in 1994 the Girona Literary Prize for novel Prudenci Bertrana. Her enthusiasm for the classical world also led her to make careful translations of Greek and Latin into Catalan, and during the first years of her professional life she stood out as a essayist in co-edited works with other authors. He published many other works, including narratives, critics, poems and essays.

In 1989, after the Vandellòs nuclear accident, she supported the development of an action plan for the urgent abandonment of nuclear energy. In 1991 she took part in the IEC (Institut d'Estudis Catalans). In 1994 the Generalitat de Catalunya gave her the Creu de Sant Jordi and in 1996 she was named adoptive daughter of Figueres. His most recognized work today is El violí de Auschwitz (‘The Auschwitz violin’), a work that is politically and humanistically committed to the drama of the National Socialist concentration camps.

He died exactly on St George's Day 1999 (April 23), the day of books and literature. Her last words were, according to the poet and critic Sam Abrams, "Sant Jordi".

Maria Àngels Anglada was voted in a participatory process in Palafrugell in 2010 as a woman who deserved a street.