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{{short description|Spanish journalist, writer and literary critic}}
'''Núria Vilaplana i Buixons''' (1931 – 25 December 2016), better known as '''Núria Pompeia''', was a Catalan Spanish cartoonist, graphic [[humorist]],<ref name=NavarroArisa1983>{{cite news|last=Navarro Arisa|first=Juan José|title=La seriedad de dos humoristas gráficos|url=http://elpais.com/diario/1983/04/25/cultura/420069615_850215.html|accessdate=8 April 2014|newspaper=El Pais|date=25 April 1983|language=Spanish}}</ref> journalist in the [[Catalan language|Catalan]] and Castilian languages, and a Catalan writer in Catalan. 

Born and raised in [[Dreta de l'Eixample]] neighborhood, she studied art at the Escola Massana in Barcelona. She published her first cartoons in ''Oriflama'' in 1969.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Inglés Yuba |first1=Eduard |last2=Puig Barata |first2=Núria |date=2016-01-30 |title=Gestión de la práctica deportiva en el medio natural. Efectos de la gobernanza en red colaborativa sobre el desarrollo sostenible |journal=Apunts Educación Física y Deportes |issue=124 |pages=89–99 |doi=10.5672/apunts.2014-0983.es.(2016/2).124.07 |issn=1577-4015|doi-access=free |url=http://www.raco.cat/index.php/ApuntsEFD/article/download/310655/400684 }}</ref> Her drawings often denoted social class, the bourgeoisie, or criticism of sexism. In more laid-back humor magazines, she also depicted censorship in a comic manner. Pompeia published novels and short stories, and worked in journalism. She died in Barcelona on 25 December 2016, aged 85.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/ocio-y-cultura/muere-dibujante-feminista-nuria-pompeia-5712691|title = Muere Núria Pompeia, dibujante y feminista|date = 26 December 2016}}</ref>

==Selected works==
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=== Comics and graphic humor ===
* ''Maternasis'', 1967 
* ''Y fueron felices comiendo perdices '', 1970
* ''Pels segles dels segles'', 1971
* ''La educación de Palmira'', 1972
* ''Mujercitas'', 1975
* ''Cambios y Recambios'', 1991

=== Narrative ===
* ''Cinc cèntims'', 1981 (short stories)
* ''Mals endreços'', 1997 (short stories)
* ''Inventari de l’últim dia'', 1986 (novel)
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==Awards==
*2000: Gold Medal of the City of Barcelona for Artistic Merit
*2007: [[Creu de Sant Jordi]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{imdb name|3599732|Núria Pompeia}}

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[[Category:Spanish editorial cartoonists]]
[[Category:1931 births]]
[[Category:2016 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century Spanish women artists]]
[[Category:Writers from Barcelona]]
[[Category:Women writers from Catalonia]]
[[Category:Spanish women editorial cartoonists]]
[[Category:Spanish women journalists]]
[[Category:Journalists from Catalonia]]
[[Category:Spanish feminists]]