The six libraries that will update their name are the following:
Ana María Moix Meseguer (Barcelona, ??April 12, 1947 – Barcelona, ??February 28, 2014) was an editor, writer and poet. She is considered one of the main literary voices of the so-called Gauche Divine in Barcelona in the sixties and seventies.
Rosa Maria Arquimbau Cardil (Barcelona, ??March 27, 1909 – Barcelona, ??February 28, 1992), Catalan narrator, comedian and journalist, published, for example, Tres contes breus (1928), and several of her works were performed at the Romea Theater.
Carmen Laforet Díaz (Barcelona, ??September 6, 1921 – Majadahonda, February 28, 2004) was a novelist. She gained international recognition with her first novel, Nada (1944), which also won the Nadal Prize.
Aurora Díaz Plaja Contestí (Barcelona, ??August 7, 1913 – Barcelona, ??December 8, 2003) was a librarian and writer, known for her children’s and youth literary works. During the Civil War he organized the Library Bus.
Maria Àngels Rivas Ureña (Targist, Morocco, 1935 – Barcelona, ??1994) was a neighborhood activist who fought for the construction of housing and a decent neighborhood for working people. In 2004, the Les Corts District inaugurated the Les Corts Equality Award: M. Àngels Rivas Ureña, and in 2010 the City Council dedicated a street to him.
Mària Sánchez Ledesma (1964 – Barcelona, ??March 16, 2023), journalist in the Information Services of RTVE Catalonia, was a journalistic reference. Her career was linked to social and municipal information in Barcelona.
In this way, there will now be thirteen libraries in the Barcelona library network named after women: