Departures of note

Dolors Oller was a Catalan writer, essayist and literary scholar who served as president of PEN Català, the Catalan branch of the international writers' organization. Under her leadership the institution was renewed, expanded and projected internationally. She was a professor of literary theory and comparative literature, and her academic career was linked to the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where she directed the master's programme in publishing at the Institute of Continuing Education and was a member of the University Institute of Culture. Her published work, a reference in the field of literary theory and the study of poetry, includes La poesia de Rafael Masó, La construcció del sentit, Virtuts textuals, Deu poetes d'ara, Accions i intencions. Estratègies de lectura and Aprendre de la lletra. She died at the age of 84.