Una vida de treball

Maria Moliner- biography

Maria Moliner was born in Paniza, Zaragoza on 30th March 1900.She studied Phylosophy in Zaragoza in 1918 and thanks to a contest, she won a position as a librarian in different towns, where she worked for five hours every day. She married Fernado Ramon in 1925 and they had four children. She started to write her dictionary when she saw the Learner's English Dictionary and decided to make one in Spanish. At first, she enjoyed writing for one hour a day .Little by little ,she started to dedicate more hours to the dictionary and ended up by devoting 10 hours a day. In 1967 she finished her dictionary but she still was working with more vocabulary. Maria Moliner used the words from the news because these are the words used by normal people.