Carme Meix i Fuster (Gandesa, 1937 – Barcelona, 2025) was a writer and teacher, whose literature is deeply rooted in the Terra Alta region while also closely linked with contemporary Catalan culture. Born during the Spanish Civil War, and marked by the privations of the postwar period, she grew up in an atmosphere of material suffering but also of intense oral memory, circumstances that symbolically marked the entirety of her work. Fascinated by literature from an early age, she read the universal classics even before she was able to gain access to formal studies which, due to social status and gender, she was denied as an adolescent.

With her marriage in 1964, she moved to Barcelona and embarked on a new stage in her life. There, she began to attend Catalan classes for adults, resumed her interrupted education and, as a mother of four, managed to enter university and graduate in Catalan Philology. In the 1980s, she set out on her teaching career in several secondary schools as a much loved mentor whose commitment to the Catalan language never wavered throughout her career. Some years later, she was awarded the Neus Garcia Prize in recognition of her educational and cultural contribution.

Meanwhile, her literary work included poetry, short stories, and novels. She made her debut with the collection of poems Palau d’absències (1991, winner of the Caterina Albert i Paradís Prize), but it was mostly in her fictional work that she forged her own voice, which is notable for its sensitivity and historical rigour, her storytelling skills, and her rich prose that stands out for the naturalness and authenticity of its combination of standard and Gandesa Catalan.

She was an honorary member of the Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (AELC – Association of Catalan Language Writers).

Web page: Álvaro Muñoz Hernández for AELC.
Documentation: The AELC "Lletres i Memòria" project.
Photograph: Òmnium Terres de l'Ebre.
Translation: Julie Wark.