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Pilar Rahola

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Pilar Rahola.

Pilar Rahola i Martínez (Barcelona, October 21, 1958) is a Spanish Catalan journalist, writer, and former politician and MP.

She comes from a republican and anti-fascist family and several relatives of hers are politicians: Pere Rahola, minister in Marina de la República; Frederic Rahola, first Síndic de Greuges (public defender) in the Generalitat de Catalunya; Carles Rahola, was a writer who was executed by Frankists. She is married and has three children, two of them adopted; one from Barcelona and the other from Siberia.[1]

Rahola studied Spanish and Catalonian Philology at the Universitat de Barcelona. She has published several books in Spanish and Catalan and she is a columnist in La Vanguardia, in Spain; La Nación in Argentina; and Diario de América in the United States. She apppears frequently on television and has taken part in several university lectures.

From 1987 to 1990, she was director of the Catalan publishing house Pòrtic, and as a journalist, she was involved in the Eritrean-Ethiopian War, the Balkan Wars, the Gulf War, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

As a politician, she was the only member of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya in Spanish Congress of Deputies in 5th and 6th Spanish legislatures, and vice-mayor of Barcelona. She also participated in several committees of investigation, specially those related to political corruption such as the comisión Roldán.[1]

In 1996, she left Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya to join Àngel Colom and Joan Laporta in a new political group, the "Partit per la Independència", but after this failed she decided to concentrate on journalism and writing. Her areas of interest include women's rights, international human rights, and animal rights. In recent years she has attracted controversy in Spain for her outspoken support of Israel and her analysis and denunciation of antisemitism in the political left-wing of Europe.

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[edit] Prizes

  • Doctor honoris causa in Universidad de Artes y Ciencias de la Comunicación de Santiago de Chile, 2004, for her fight in favour of human rights
  • Premio Javer Olam (2004), given by Jewish Chilean Community for her fight against anti-Semitism.
  • Cicla Price (2005), given for her fight against anti-Semitism.
  • Honour Member of University of Tel Aviv, 2006.
  • Golden Menora Price 2006, with Simone Weil, given by French B´nai Brith
  • Scopus Price 2007, the best price given by Hebrean University of Jerusalem.
  • APEI Price for yours articles, given by "Asociación Profesional Española de Informadores de Prensa, Radio y Televisión".
  • Honnour guest in the AIPAC's Polycy Conference, 2008.
  • Senador Angel Pulido, 2009, given by "Federación de Comunidades Judías de España".
  • Mass Media Award, 2009, given by American Jewish Committee, for her fight bias to Human Rights.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Biografía 17-04-2007.

[edit] External links

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