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Diana Garrigosa

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Diana Garrigosa with her husband, Pasqual Maragall, in 2015

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

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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 [ca] 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]

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