Núria Pompeia

Núria Vilaplana i Buixons (better known as Núria Pompeia (born 1931, Barcelona) is a Spanish cartoonist, graphic humorist,^[1] journalist in Catalan and Castilian languages, and a Catalan writer in Catalan. Born and raised in Dreta de l'Eixample neighborhood, she studied art at the Escuela Massana in Barcelona. She first published her first cartoons in Oriflama in 1969 . Her drawings often denote social class, the bourgeoisie, or criticism of the sexism. In the more lenient humor magazines, she also depicts censorship in a comic manner. Pompeia has published novels and short stories, and has worked in journalism.

Selected works

• Maternasis, 1967
• Y fueron felices comiendo perdices , 1970
• Pels segles dels segles, 1971
• La educación de Palmira, 1972
• Mujercitas, 1975
• Cambios y Recambios, 1991
• Mals endreços, 1997

Awards

• 2000: Gold Medal, Ciudad de Barcelona
• 2007: Premio Creu de Sant Jordi

References

1. Navarro Arisa, Juan José (25 April 1983). "La seriedad de dos humoristas gráficos". El Pais (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 April 2014.

External links

• Núria Pompeia at the Internet Movie Database