Valentí, Helena

b. 1940, Barcelona

   Writer

   Active in the feminist movement during eleven years" study and writing in England, Valentí began publishing in English. On her return to Barcelona, she began writing in Catalan and translating from English. Her works explore intimacy and alternative lifestyles with unusual frankness. In the stories of Amic, Amat (Mature Love), women struggle with unwanted pregnancy, failed marriages, economic dependency and identity crises. Comparable conflicts imbue the novel, La solitud d'Anna (Anna's Solitude), which examines relationships of power and abuse and the struggle for self-affirmation with delicacy and insight. La dona errant (Errant Female) analyses changing sexual mores.

   Further reading

   - Pérez, J. (1988) Contemporary Women Writers of Spain, Boston, MA: G.K.Hall, pp. 184–6 (schematic analysis of feminist aspects).

   JANET PÉREZ