Diana Garrigosa Laspeñas (10 November 1944 – 10 February 2020) was a Spanish economist and teacher, wife of 127th President of the Generalitat of Catalonia Pasqual Maragall and president of Pasqual Maragall Foundation since its establishment in 2008.[1]
Biography
Born in Barcelona in 1944, she studied Economy at the University of Barcelona and completed a Master of Econometrics in The New School for Social Research of New York City. After returning to Spain, she worked at the Barcelona City Council's Municipal Computer Center and was a computer science teacher at the Aula school of the city.[2]
She married Pasqual Maragall in 1965, and they had three children. She was a militant of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia for much of his life, leaving the party[3] just before she knew that Pasqual Maragall would not be presidential in the 2006 regional election.[4]
On the occasion of the Olympic Games in Barcelona, in 1992, her husband being mayor of Barcelona, she made one of the reliefs of the Olympic torch.[5]
On 20 October 2007, her husband announced that he was suffering from Alzheimer's[6] and she devoted her life to taking care of him.[7] In April 2008, together with her husband, she created the Pasqual Maragall Foundation, dedicated to the fight against this disease.[8][9]
In 2010 she starred, together with Maragall, in the documentary film Bicycle, spoon, apple by Carles Bosch, that won a Goya Award[10] in 2011 for Best Documentary and a Gaudí Award the same year.[11][12]
She died suddenly on February 10, 2020, at the age of 76, from a heart attack.[13]
References
- ↑ Muere Diana Garrigosa (in Spanish)
- ↑ Mor Diana Garrigosa, esposa de Pasqual Maragall (in Catalan)
- ↑ Diana Garrigosa, la esposa de Pasqual Maragall, se da de baja como militante del PSC (in Spanish)
- ↑ Maragall no repite (in Spanish)
- ↑ L'adeu sobtat de Diana Garrigosa (in Catalan)
- ↑ Maragall anuncia que padece Alzheimer (in Spanish)
- ↑ La Cataluña que pudo ser (in Spanish)
- ↑ Maragall contra el alzhéimer (in Spanish)
- ↑ FUNDACIÓ PRIVADA PASQUAL MARAGALL PER A LA RECERCA SOBRE L’ALZHEIMER (in Catalan)
- ↑ “Bicicleta, cuchara, manzana” galardonada con el Goya a la mejor película documental. (in Spanish)
- ↑ “Bicicleta, cullera, poma” guardonada als premis Gaudí i José María Forqué. (in Catalan)
- ↑ Bicicleta, cuchara, manzana Archived 2020-02-21 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ↑ Muere Diana Garrigosa, esposa del expresidente de la Generalitat, Pasqual Maragall (in Spanish)