She is considered by numerous to exist as a first Catalan novelist of the postwar time period. Her novel La plaça del diamant (1962) has turn into a virtually all acclaimed Catalan novel ever & since a month it was published first, it has been translated into ended Xx languages. It's likewise considered by numbers of to exist as better novel treating by using a Spanish Civil War.

She began her career by writing short stories around magazines, as an shake off her unhappy marriage. She so wrote psychological novels, including Aloma which won a Crexells Prize, however potentially by having a profits this novel enjoyed, Rodoreda decided to remaking & republish it a few years later on since she wasn't fully satisfied by using this period of her life & her work on that period.

At first of the Spanish Civil War, she worked for the Catalan Generalitat's Propaganda Department.

She was exiled around France & late Switzerland, within which in 1958 she broke her silence using a publication of her book Twenty-Xxii short stories, which earned her a Víctor Català Prize. Using Camelia Street (El Carrer first state les Camèlies) (1966) she won many prizes. within the Seventies, she returned to Romanyà delaware la Selva in Catalonia and finished the novel Mirall trencat (Broken Mirror) inside 1974.

Amongst more works come Viatges we flors (Travels & flowers) & Quanta, quanta guerra (How else lot War) within 1980, which was as well a season where she won a ''Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes''. In a period of the endure period of her lifespan, her works developed from either her common psychologic style to turn into extra akin to symbolism in its more cryptic form.

Withinside 1998 a literature prize was instituted in her title: the Mercè Rodoreda prize for short stories & tale.

She was processed the Member of Honour of the Association of Writers within Catalan Language (Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana).

A few of her first works include:

Aloma (1938) Vint-we-dos contes (1958) La plaça del diamant (1962) El carrer first state les camèlies (1966) Jardí vora el mar (1967) Mirall Trencat (1974) Semblava delaware seda i personally altres contes (1978) Quanta, quanta guerra... (1980) La mort i personally la primavera (1986)