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Maria Assumpció Soler Font

Girona 1913 - 2004

Year of approval: 2004

Length: 393 metres

Location: South, 17003

Maria Assumpció Soler Font was a Catalan writer, journalist and teacher.

As a young woman she was greatly influenced by her uncle, Mossèn Joan Font i Garcia, a convinced Esperanto and Catalanist. His execution in 1936 and the disappearance of her brother John during the Civil War left a mark on her. She studied at the School of Escolapias, on the corner of the Cathedral of Girona. Under the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, she studied at the Normal School. Her union membership with the Teaching Workers' Federation-UGT caused her problems with the Franco regime after the civil war, but the case was shelved in 1939. In 1932 she began teaching at the public school of Rupià, from 1934 to 1950 in Palafrugell. After an interlude from 1950 to 1952, when she worked at the company of his uncle Lluís and a private school in Barcelona, ​​she returned in 1952 to the school of Sant Gregori, where he taught until 1980 when she moved to Migdia school in Girona until her retirement in 1982. When she received the Fastenrath Prize for Flower Games in exile in 1959, she did not get permission from the Ministry of National Education to go to Paris to pick it up.

Despite the disappointment of never seeing her winning work published in life, she continued to write, forced by linguistic repression under Franco, to use Spanish. Her articles on serious subjects were in Spanish, but in 1955 it was published in the Journal of Gerona her first poem in Catalan.

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