Laura Freixas
# Laura Freixas

Laura Freixas (born 1958) is a Spanish novelist, short story writer, and newspaper columnist.

## Biography

Freixas was born in Barcelona in 1958. Laura Freixas is the granddaughter of Freixas Miquel. Freixas studied at the French School in her home city of Barcelona. She got a BA degree in Law in 1980 from the University of Barcelona. She has been active as a writer since 1988. Freixas' work also includes scholarship and promotion of women writers.

She has also worked in international universities as a publisher, a Spanish language assistant, and a translator. At present she teaches literature workshops for different institutions. She writes as a columnist for the newspaper La Vanguardia and does literary reviews for its supplement Cultura/s. She is a contributor to literary magazines such as Mercurio, Letras libres, El País, and Revista de Libros.

She has been a lecturer or a writer in residence at many Spanish and foreign universities and taught creative writing at the University of Virginia (UVA). She is a member of the European Cultural Parliament and the chair of the association Clásicas y Modernas for gender equality in Spanish culture from 2009 to 2017.

Freixas has campaigned against trans-inclusive laws in Spain as she views it as a regression for Spanish gender equality.

## Literary work

### Novels

* The Last Sunday in London (1997)
* Just Between Friends (1998)
* Love or Whatever It Is (2005)

### Short story collections

* The Wrist Murderer (1988)
* Tales at the Age of Forty (2001)

### Compilations

* Mothers and Daughters (1996) – Freixas also wrote the prologue
* Women Friends (2009)

### Non-fiction works

* Women and Literature (2000)
* La novela femenil y sus lectrices (2009)

### Autobiography

* A Teenager in Barcelona Around 1970 (2007)
