Pilar Rahola

ABOUT PILAR RAHOLA

Award-winning Spanish journalist and politician who has worked as a columnist for La Vanguardia and as the director of the publishing house Pòrtic. She has authored numerous books including Mariona and Basta.

She studied Spanish and Catalan Philology at the University of Barcelona.

In 2017, she won the Ramon Llull de les Lletres Catalanes Prize for her novel Rosa de Cendra.

Her mother's name is Pilar and her father's name is Josep. She married Roberto Cerdán in 2001. Her daughters' names are Sira and Ada and her son's name is Noè.

In 2010, she received the Daniel Pearl Award for her commitment to a journalistic code of ethics.