Aina Moll Marquès

Aina Moll Marquès, 2013

Aina Moll Marquès (1 December 1930 – 9 February 2019) was a Spanish philologist and politician, who served as director of Linguistic Policy of the Generalitat de Catalunya. She was a recipient of Creu de Sant Jordi and the Ramon Llull Award.

Biography

Aina Moll was born in Ciutadella de Menorca on 1 December 1930. She was the eldest daughter of Francesc de Borja Moll, with whom she collaborated in the last two volumes of the Diccionari català-valencià-balear. In 1953, she obtained a degree in Romanesque philology. Later, she continued her studies in Paris, Strasbourg, and Zürich. From 1954 to 1961, she was director of the Raixa Library. She was a member of the Grupo Catalán de Sociolingüística (Catalan Sociolinguistic Group), and was also a member of the first Commission of State Transfers - General Interinsular Council of the Balearic Islands. She was general director of Linguistic Policy of the Generalitat de Catalunya from 1980 to 1988 . Between 1995 and 1996, she was linguistic advisor to the Balearic government. Since 1993, she was a member of the Institute for Catalan Studies. Marquès died in Palma de Mallorca on 9 February 2019.

Awards

• 1988, Creu de Sant Jordi of the Generalitat of Catalonia
• 1997, Ramon Llull Award of the Government of the Balearic Islands
• 2008, Premio Pompeu Fabra
• 2012, Doctora honoris causa at Open University of Catalonia
• 2015, Medalla de Oro del Consell de Mallorca

Selected works

• Francesc de B. Moll: la fidelitat tossuda (2004)
• La nostra llengua (1990)
• a, bé, cé: sa pastera ja la sé : 2. Ilustró Aina Bonner. Editorial Moll, 48 pp. ISBN 8427302932, ISBN 9788427302938 (1980)
• Apprenez le Français avec nous: 1. Vol. 2. 2ª edición de Moll, ISBN 8427302002, ISBN 9788427302006 (1973)