Portico of Galician Literature

Biography

María Reimóndez is the author of seven novels, including The Knitting Club (2006), Pirate (2009) and three novels in which the secondary characters of one novel become the protagonists of another: On the Road to Extinction (2012), From the Conflict (2014) and The Music of Living Beings (2015). She is the founder of an NGO, Implicadas/os no Desenvolvemento (Involved in Development), devoted to eradicating gender discrimination in countries such as India and Ethiopia. She has written a guidebook to feminisms of the world, Feminisms (2013), in collaboration with Olga Castro. She has numerous works of poetry and children’s literature, and has translated authors such as Rotraut Susanne Berner, Elena Poniatowska and Max Velthuijs into Galician.

Synopsis

Pirate (344 pages) is a novel about the love affair between two women pirates, Mary Read and Anne Bonny, whose lives were recorded in the 1724 text A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates by Captain Charles Johnson. In wider terms, it is about the right of women to take their own decisions and not to be defined by others’ perceptions.

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