Fundació Mercè Rodoreda

Fundació Mercè Rodoreda is a grant-making foundation based in Barcelona, Spain working on arts & culture, heritage, science & research.

The Fundació Mercè Rodoreda promotes the work of the Catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda (1908-1983). It awards annual prizes and grants for unpublished research on twentieth-century Catalan novel and short story, with a focus on Rodoreda's work, with awards proposed by its Technical Commission. It also runs cultural activities that explain Rodoreda's output and its historical, cultural and literary context, including exhibitions such as the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the second edition of Aloma, and promotes reading. In collaboration with the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, it operates the Espai Rodoreda exhibition space, a hanging garden of plants cited in her works, and literary routes through Barcelona. Activities are based in Barcelona, Catalonia.