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Miquel Martí i Pol (; 19 March 1929 – 11 November 2003) was one of the most popular and widely-read
At the age of 14, Martí i Pol started work in the office of a textile factory. He published his first poetry when he was only 15. Based on his experience in the factory, he wrote in 1959 a collection of poems called ''La fàbrica'' (the Factory). However, they were to remain unpublished until 1970 as his family were afraid that their publication might cause him to lose his job. He worked at the factory until 1973, when at the age of 43 the
Martí i Pol at the AELC
(Association of Writers in Catalan Language), in Catalan, English and Spanish.
Miquel Martí i Pol at lletrA, Catalan Literature Online (Open University of Catalunya)
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Catalan
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Catalonia
From, or related to Catalonia:
* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
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poets of the twentieth century, publishing more than 1,500 poems.
Biography
At the age of 14, Martí i Pol started work in the office of a textile factory. He published his first poetry when he was only 15. Based on his experience in the factory, he wrote in 1959 a collection of poems called ''La fàbrica'' (the Factory). However, they were to remain unpublished until 1970 as his family were afraid that their publication might cause him to lose his job. He worked at the factory until 1973, when at the age of 43 the multiple sclerosis
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he had contracted forced him to quit.
Martí i Pol spent his whole life in the town of his birth, Roda de Ter. He was committed to the people of the town and factory and also to the social class to which they belonged. He wrote: “I want to speak of them/in speaking of people today/ I want to speak of them. Without them, I do not exist.” However, in his best-selling collection of poems (over 100,000 copies sold) entitled ''Estimada Marta'' (Dear Marta), he showed that he could also poeticize an amorous and erotic relationship between a man and woman. In his later work, he explored the recurring themes of love, desire and death.
Martí i Pol was married twice and had two children from his first marriage.
Main works
Some of his main works are: *1954: ''Paraules al vent'' *1966: ''El poble'' *1972: ''La fàbrica'' *1972: ''Vint-i-set poemes en tres temps'' *1975: ''L'arrel i l'escorça'' *1976: ''El llarg viatge'' *1977: ''Amb vidres a la sang'' *1978: ''Estimada Marta'' *1991: ''Suite de Parlavà'' *2002: ''Després de tot''Translator
Apart from writing poetry, Martí i Pol also translated over 20 books, mainly from French. Among the authors he translated are Saint-Exupéry,Simone de Beauvoir
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, and even ...
, Apollinaire, Flaubert, Barthes, Lévi-Strauss and Zola.
Politics
Martí i Pol was an active member of thePSUC
The Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia ( ca, Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya, PSUC) was a communist political party active in Catalonia between 1936 and 1997. It was the Catalan branch of the Communist Party of Spain and the only party ...
(Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia) under the last years of the Franco dictatorship
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. He joined in 1968 and left in 1982, following a comment by Santiago Carrillo, long-time leader of the Spanish Communist Party, that the PSUC was "too Catalan and little Spanish".
References
External links
*Martí i Pol at the AELC
(Association of Writers in Catalan Language), in Catalan, English and Spanish.
Miquel Martí i Pol at lletrA, Catalan Literature Online (Open University of Catalunya)
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