Aina Moll Marquès

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 Grup Català 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. , (1980) • Apprenez le Français avec nous: 1. Vol. 2. 2ª edición de Moll, , (1973) ==References==