Montserrat Roig i Fransitorra Catalan journalist and writer of novels and short stories, was born in 1946. In her writing, Roig confronted her own political, cultural and literary ...ver másMontserrat Roig i Fransitorra Catalan journalist and writer of novels and short stories, was born in 1946. In her writing, Roig confronted her own political, cultural and literary past in the search for her identity as a writer in a rapidly changing Catalonia. She won, among other awards, the 1976 Premi Sant Jordi de Novel·la for El temps de les cireres and the 1978 Crítica Serra d’Or prize for historic journalism for Els catalans als camps nazis. She died from cancer in 1991.ver menos