The writer, journalist and politician has died at age 85 in Madrid, a city where he resided since 2003, as confirmed on Friday the Association of D’R’s in Catalan Flenguage (AELC), an entity of which he was a member of honor. Prolific author, and specialist in social and cultural criticism, Riera published fifty works such as novels, short narratives, essays and biographies.
Born in Barcelona in 1940, he graduated in Philosophy and Letters from the Companya de Jesús de Sant Cugat del Vallès and in Romanesque philology by the University of Barcelona. After studying at the Seminar, he ended up abandoning Catholicism for Marxism and moved to Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona), where he served as a councilor for culture for the PSUC and by IC-IEV for fifteen years. He was also a deputy of the Parliament of Catalonia between 1988 and 1992.
Between 1986 and 2000 and other written and radio media, Riera’s work, nephew of the poet Joan Oliver, was characterized by irony and social and political denunciation through the labor struggle and immigration. In his first stage he narrated the years of the transition in Catalonia. In 1980 he received the Andròmina de Narrative Prize for Honorable places r and in 1984 the Ramon Llull Prize for novel by The clock of the bridge of Esplugues, starring a PSUC militant woman. After settling in Madrid I would write A Catalan in Madrid (2004) y Memories of a gout, that earned him the premi Roc Boronat of stories in 2005.
Actively involved in the defense of human rights, Riera actively collaborated with the Solidaritat Amb el Sàhara and Sos Racisme Group. He was also a teacher and exercised as a teacher of adult training at the Escola Professional del Clot (Barcelona). The vigil will be done in the Madrid funeral of San Isidro, and it is also planned to perform a ceremony in Cornellà.
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