Pàmies, Teresa

Teresa Pàmies Bertran (8 October 1919 – 13 March 2012) was a Spanish Catalan-language writer. She was leader of the Unified Socialist Youth of Catalonia (1937) and one of the founders of the National Alliance of the Young Woman (1937–1939). Married to Gregorio López Raimundo, General Secretary of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC), she was the mother of writer Sergi Pàmies. Prominent among her works, always with an autobiographical background, were Testament a Praga (1970), Quan érem capitans (1974), Va ploure tot el dia (1974), Gent del meu exili (1975), a biography of Dolores Ibárruri in Spanish (Mexico, 1975), and Jardí enfonsat (1992). In 1984 she received the Creu de Sant Jordi awarded by Generalitat de Catalunya autonomous government. In 2000 she received the gold medal for artistic merit of the City Council of Barcelona. In 2001 she was awarded the Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes, and in 2007 she received the Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Award.