Esther Tusquets (30 August 1936 – 23 July 2012) was a Spanish publisher, novelist and essayist. Biography Tusquets was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Her brother is the architect Òscar Tusquets. She studied philosophy, literature and history at the University of Barcelona. She spent several years teaching literature and history at the Carillo Academy. She was the director of the publishing house Lumen in Barcelona. Tusquets published her first novel (The Same Sea as Every Summer) in 1978. It was the first in a trilogy and was followed by (Love is a Solitary Game) in 1979 and (Stranded) in 1980. Her focus in these novels was language and the lesbian body as battlefields. Tuquet had Parkinson's disease for several years. She died of pneumonia at the age of 75 in Barcelona on 23 July 2012. References External links 1936 births 2012 deaths Writers from Barcelona Women writers from Catalonia Spanish women novelists Spanish women essayists People with Parkinson's disease Deaths from pneumonia in Spain 20th-century Spanish novelists 20th-century Spanish women writers 20th-century essayists