Esther Tusquets
Esther Tusquets was a Spanish publisher, novelist and essayist.Biography
Tusquets was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Her brother is the architect Òscar Tusquets.
She studied philosophy, literature and history at the University of Barcelona. She spent several years teaching literature and history at the Carillo Academy. She was the director of the publishing house Lumen in Barcelona.
Tuquets published her first novel El mismo mar de todos los veranos in 1978. It was the first in a trilogy and was followed by El amor es un juego solitario in 1979 and Varada tras el último naufragio in 1980. Her focus in these novels was language and the lesbian body as battlefields.
Tuquet had Parkinson's disease for several years. She died of pneumonia at the age of 75 in Barcelona on 23 July 2012.
