Editing Mercè Rodoreda (section)

====Paris====
The return to Paris took place in September 1946 when Rodoreda and Obiols moved to the house of Rafael Tasis in exile, the house was located at number 9  ''Coëtlogon'' street. A short time later, the couple moved to the sixth floor of number 21 on ''Cherche-Midi'' street, in the residential area of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, which was a meeting place for many intellectuals of the time. This was her home for eight years and, in fact, she did not fully disengage until 1977.<ref name="mercè1" />

At the beginning of 1947, she was able to leave her job as a seamstress to go back to work as a collaborator in the magazine ''Revista de Catalunya''. Apart from publishing narrations during that year in the various editions of the magazine, she was also able to publish some in [[Chile]] and [[Mexico]].<ref name="mercè1" />

From 1947 to 1953, Mercè Rodoreda was unable to cultivate extensive literature because just in 1945 she had begun to suffer from health problems, along with the reappearance of somatic paralysis in her right arm. For this reason, she intensified her poetic creation and found her teacher in [[Josep Carner]], with whom she maintained a close relationship by correspondence. In 1952, she began recovery therapy at the [[Châtel-Guyon]] spa.<ref name=":8" /> During the years that she was in Paris, she also began two novels that she did not finish.<ref name="mercè1" />

In 1947, during the [[Floral Games |Floral Games of the Catalan Language]] held in London, she won her first Natural Flower with six [[sonnet]]s: ''Rosa'', ''Amor novell'', ''Adam a Eva'', ''Ocell'' and two more untitled sonnets.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rodoreda |first=Mercè |date=1984 |title=Mercè Rodoreda: Obra poètica |url=https://raco.cat/index.php/Marges/article/view/111320 |journal=Marges, Els: Revista de llengua i literatura |pages=55–71 |issn=2339-8256}}</ref> With the poem ''Món d'Ulisses'', Rodoreda won for the second time the Natural Flower of the Floral Games of 1948 in [[Paris]], a poem that was published in the magazine ''La Nostra Revista'' that same year.<ref>Rodoreda Gurguí, Mercè "Món d'Ulisses". La Nostra Revista, numbers. 35-36, Novembre-Desembre 1948, page. 367.</ref> ''Albes i nits'' gave her the third victory in the Floral Games contest and, consequently, she was named "''Mestre en Gai Saber''" in [[Montevideo]] in 1949.<ref>Rodoreda Gurguí, Mercè "''Albes i nits''". La Nostra Revista, numbers. 45, 30-IX-1949, page. 284.</ref> That same year she visited Barcelona for the first time after exile.

In 1951, she also approached [[painting]], interested above all in painters such as [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Paul Klee]] and [[Joan Miró]], and she made some of her own creations. In a 1954 letter to Armand Oriols she explains that she already had a "style and a world" in painting, yet she acknowledged that her place was in writing.<ref name="mercè1" /> On the other hand, Obiols, began to work as a translator for [[UNESCO]] thanks to Quiroga Plá, and two years later, in 1953, he permanently moved to [[Geneva]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Virgili |first=Antoni Rovira i |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gAsRtWzBWREC&q=Armand+Obiols+UNESCO&pg=PA427 |title=Cartes de l'exili, 1939-1949 |date=2002 |publisher=L'Abadia de Montserrat |isbn=978-84-8415-406-8 |language=ca}}</ref>