Dolors Altaba

Dolors Altaba-Artal (1934, Barcelona) is a Spanish specialist in gemology, painter and writer.
Biography
She is the daughter of the Catalan politician Ricard Altaba i Planuch.
In 1939, her family was exiled during the Spanish Civil war and so they moved to France and later Mexico.
She was student in Mexico City, at Ruiz de Alarcón college, then in Fitz Gibbons Academy. She learned English, German and French, and design and arts at the Universidad Feminina de México.
She returned to Catalonia in the 1960s. She continued her studies in Barcelona, at the University of Barcelona and in Los Angeles, California, at the Gemological Institute of America. In 1983, she graduated from the University of California in San Diego where she also taught languages. Her work was exhibited in Barcelona and Mexico.
Selected works
* "El misterio de las gemas" in Gemología (Mexico City)
* Thales for infants
* Aphra Behn's Progressive Dialogization of the Spanish Voice (1992)
* Aphra Behn's English Feminism: Wit and Satire (1999)
* Action & Reaction: Proceedings of a Symposium to Commemorate the Tercentenary of Newton's Principia (1993), with Paul Theerman and Adele F Seeff,
* Embryonic Landscapes (2003) with Ariel Ruiz i Altaba, Cristian Ruiz Altaba and Elena Alvarez-Buylla,

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