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WHAT’S BEEN SAID
«Twelve very powerful, stirring tales. You will not leave unscathed.»
Anna Guitar, Tria 33 – Canal 33
about Nines
«Villanueva’s prose has taken hold of me.»
Eva Piquer
about El parèntesi esquerre
«It’s not understanding why so little is said about Muriel Villanueva when it comes to adult storytelling. This will soon change, and the opposite would be an anomaly.»
Maria Carme Rafecas, Setembre
about El ball de les estornelles
«Villanueva presents herself as a mature author who knows where she is going, who knows exactly what she is doing when she writes.»
Marina Porras, Ara Llegim
about El parèntesi esquerre
«I read the thanks that Roger Coch has been advised by Muriel Villanueva, with whom he shares a very healthy sense of forcefulness, a taste for hard prose and difficult narrators, oblique interlocutors and the atmosphere of mental dispersion that catches the reader and he can’t let go. That literally overwhelms him and overwhelms him. We saw it clearly with the volume Dolls, also from Weeds. It is precisely this outstanding narrative technique (well disguised, as it should be) that distinguishes both Villanueva and Coch from the by-products we suffer at home too often. This is difficult prose for cults, for readers seeking pleasure and craftsmanship, nonconformist work, and complicity between intelligences. Characteristics that they share with another amazing author of the house, the great Ruy d’Aleixo.»
Andreu Navarra, La Directa
about Nines
«Muriel Villanueva’s novels always have something fresh and suggestive, poignant, whether it’s because of what she tells (La gatera), the way she tells it (Motril 86) or a combination of everything. Values of a singular narrative voice, full of linguistic findings and an intuition that I find innate to model words and experience, lived and observed facts.»
Xavi Aliaga, El temps
about El parèntesi esquerre
«Duna is one of those books that has come to stay and to become a classic. Muriel Villanueva achieves the perfect tone, content, way to invite children to think, feel and empathize with other’s feelings.»
Fe Fernández, L’Espolsada Llibres
about Duna
«Muriel’s pen is flawless, intimate, small, and it goes straight to the heart. The characters who become flesh as you turn the pages. Everything works, no thread is left unstitched.»
Paula Jarrin, Llibreria Al·lots
about Duna
«One of the greatest achievements of the novel is the narrative voice, of a subjugating naturalness, close to orality, but also to the domestic and the urban. Despite his tendency to digress and reflect, she keeps pace. The reader may be wondering why he is so caught up in such a simple story. The answer is also simple: because behind these lines is a real writer, someone who knows what is being done, who takes risks and is right. An author who should be followed closely.»
Care Santos, El Cultural – El Mundo
about La gatera
«As for the technique, the result is impeccable, perhaps the most brilliant and daring achieved so far by Villanueva, an undisputed tour de force.»
Ricard Ruiz, El País
about Motril 86
«This one by Muriel Villanueva is one of the best stories I’ve read lately. The whole book Nines is good, but this story is spectacularly hard, spectacularly brave, spectacularly memorable.»
Ricard Ruiz Garzón
about ‘La seva nina‘, Nines
«An intense and beautiful story perfectly constructed, between the past and the present, between reality and fiction, of a world of deep, demystified feelings that lead to personal liberation.»
Isabel Robles, El Levante
about Motril 86
«Muriel Villanueva is one of those who do not conform, avoids conventions, rejects the commonplaces of traditional narrative and opposes the uncertain and disturbing movement to an orderly and persuasive approaches.»
Anna M. Gil, La Vanguàrdia
about Motril 86
«This is a refreshing, poignant story, with a good dose of tenderness and a touch of love. With a model structure of lived situations, with specific facts, alternating past and present, which also provides a social and sociological view of the changes experienced in the last 40 years. An evolution well portrayed through musical influence, fashions, drugs, sex and the evolution of customs, are reflected in small sparks of life that help complete the story. A clear, crisp, direct, humorous and uncompromising language. A literature that makes you love life more.»
Jordi Capdevila, El Punt Avui
about Motril 86