<b>Maria Àngels Anglada</b> was a Catalan poet and novelist. She was born in Vic, Spain, in 1930. She received a degree in Classical Philology at the University of Barcelona. <br/>She died in 1999. <br/>Her first novel, Les closes, won the Josep Pla Prize. Her 1985 novel Sandàlies d'escuma (Sandals of Foam) won the Lletra d'Or Prize.