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List Of Catalan-language Writers
This is an alphabetically sorted list of writers in the Catalan language: A * Antònia Abelló * Elisabet Abeyà * Joan Alcover * Gabriel Alomar * Núria Añó * Sebastià Juan Arbó B * Borja Bagunyà * Eva Baltasar * Maria Gràcia Bassa i Rocas * Prudenci Bertrana * Joan Binimelis * Edmond Brazes * Joan Brossa C * Jaume Cabré * Maria Teresa Cabré * Pere Calders * Mercè Canela * Josep Carner * Maite Carranza * Jordi Casanovas * Víctor Català * Jaume Cuadrat * Toni Cucarella D * Bernat Desclot * Teresa Duran E * Francesc Eiximenis * Salvador Espriu * Vicent Andrés Estellés F * Ester Fenoll Garcia *Gabriel Ferrater * Josep Vicenç Foix * Francesc Fontanella * Joan Fuster G * Martí Joan de Galba * Jordi Galceran * Tomàs Garcés * Gaziel * Juan Goytisolo * Adrià Gual * Àngel Guimerà * Francesc Vicent Garcia I J * Maria de la Pau Janer L * Ramon Llull M * Jordi de Manuel * Joan Maragall * Ausiàs March * Joan Margarit * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalan Language
Catalan (; autonym: , ), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as '' Valencian'' ( autonym: ), is a Western Romance language. It is the official language of Andorra, and an official language of three autonomous communities in eastern Spain: Catalonia, the Valencian Community, and the Balearic Islands. It also has semi-official status in the Italian comune of Alghero. It is also spoken in the Pyrénées-Orientales department of France and in two further areas in eastern Spain: the eastern strip of Aragon and the Carche area in the Region of Murcia. The Catalan-speaking territories are often called the or "Catalan Countries". The language evolved from Vulgar Latin in the Middle Ages around the eastern Pyrenees. Nineteenth-century Spain saw a Catalan literary revival, culminating in the early 1900s. Etymology and pronunciation The word ''Catalan'' is derived from the territorial name of Catalonia, itself of disputed etymology. The main theory suggests ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercè Canela
Mercè Canela (born 1956, Sant Guim de Freixenet, la Segarra) is a Catalan writer and translator. She studied archaeology in Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where she worked as a librarian later before she went to Brussels to work as a documentalist in the European Union. She started writing when she was very young, and she considers herself basically a writer. In 1976, the publishing house La Galera published one of her books for teenagers ''De qui és el bosc?'', and she won the Josep M. Folch i Torres award with ''L'escarabat verd''. She published several children's and teenagers' novels later and she has won several prizes for them. In 1984, she was included in the Honour List of IBBY with ''Asperú, joglar embruixat''. She has translated to Catalan several works in German, French and Italian. Besides, she published: ''Un passeig pel Poble Espanyol'' (Beta, Barcelona, 1998), a book which explains the history of Poble Espanyol, in Montjuïc, in Barcelona. In 1980, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Ferrater
Gabriel Ferrater i Soler (; 20 May 1922 – 27 April 1972) was an author, translator and scholar of linguistics of the sixties who wrote in the Catalan language. His poetical work is one of the most important among the authors of post-war Catalonia and he continues to exert a great deal of influence over authors nowadays. He published three collections of poems: ''Da nuces pueris'' (1960), ''Menja't una cama'' ("Eat a leg", 1962) and ''Teoria dels cossos'' ("Theory of bodies"), consequently compiled into a single volume called ''Les dones i els dies'' ("Women and days", 1968), which was a milestone in Catalan literature. Work His early influences were Thomas Hardy, W. H. Auden, Shakespeare, Brecht, Ausiàs March. Erotism and longing for time lost are constant topics in his work. The poems ''In memoriam'' and ''Poema inacabat'' ("Unfinished poem") are some of the most open testimonies of the Spanish Civil War and its consequences, which could be felt at the time he was writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ester Fenoll Garcia
Ester Fenoll Garcia (b. La Seu d'Urgell, Spain, 6 June 1967) is a poet and writer, and a civil servant living in the Principality of Andorra. Biography Ester Fenoll has a degree in Law, a postgraduate degree in Adult Guardianship from the University of Barcelona and a postgraduate degree in Andorran Law from the University of Andorra. She began management of the Fundació Privada Tutelar in 2007, even as she was also the president and co-founder of the Association of Autism Affected People of the Principality of Andorra (Autea). She was also a member of the Federation of Andorran Disability Associations (FAAD). As a columnist, her work has appeared in the periodicals ''Foc i lloc'' of the ''Diari d'Andorra''. Fenoll joined the Andorran government in 2011 with her appointment as a permanent member of the Health and Welfare Advisory Council. In April 2015, she moved on to become Secretary of State for Social Affairs of the Government of Andorra. In May 2019, as the principali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicent Andrés Estellés
Vicent Andrés Estellés (; 4 September 1924 in Burjassot, Valencia – 27 March 1993 in Valencia) was a Spanish journalist and poet. He is considered one of the main renovators of modern Valencian poetry, with a similar role to that of Ausiàs March or Joan Roís de Corella in earlier periods. Biography Vicent Andrés Estellés was 12 years old when the Spanish Civil War broke out. During its course, he trained to become both a baker and a goldsmith, and learned to write on a typewriter. The war had a profound impact on his work, in which death is a recurring theme. Estellés spent his teenage years in Valencia, where he developed an interest in literature. During that period, he was most influenced by Charles Baudelaire, Pablo Neruda, Paul Éluard, Cesare Pavese, and Walt Whitman, Catalan poets such as Màrius Torres, Jacint Verdaguer, Josep Carner, Carles Riba, Santiago Rusiñol and Joan Salvat-Papasseit, as well as the Valencian poet Ausiàs March and the Balearic p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvador Espriu
Salvador Espriu i Castelló (; 10 July 1913 – 22 February 1985) was a Catalan poet. Biography Espriu was born in Santa Coloma de Farners, Catalonia, Spain. He was the son of an attorney. He spent his childhood between his home town, Barcelona, and Arenys de Mar, a village on the Maresme coast. At the age of sixteen, he published his first book, ''Israel'', written in Spanish. In 1930 he entered the University of Barcelona, where he studied law and ancient history. While traveling (1933) to Egypt, Greece and Palestine, he became acquainted with the countries that originated the great classical myths, and which would be so influential in his work. During the Spanish civil war he was mobilised and served in military accounting. Translated into several languages, Espriu's work has obtained international recognition, most notably the ''Montaigne prize'' (1971). He was also given the ''Award of Honour of Catalan Letters'' (1972), the ''Ignasi Iglesias prize'' (1980), the '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesc Eiximenis
Francesc Eiximenis (; died 1409) was a Franciscan Catalan writer who lived in the 14th-century Crown of Aragon. He was possibly one of the more successful medieval Catalan writers since his works were widely read, copied, published and translated. Therefore, it can be said that both in the literary and in the political sphere he had a lot of influence. Among his readers were numbered important people of his time, such as the kings of the Crown of Aragon Peter IV, John I and Martin I, the queen Maria de Luna (wife of Martin I), and the Pope of Avignon Benedict XIII. Life Francesc Eiximenis was born around 1330, possibly in Girona. When he was very young, he became a Franciscan and his education began in the Franciscan schools of the Kingdom of Aragon. Later, he attended the most important universities of Europe: the University of Oxford and the University of Paris. The University of Oxford influenced him notably, since the Franciscans had there an important school. Thus, several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teresa Duran
Teresa (also Theresa, Therese; french: Thérèse) is a feminine given name. It originates in the Iberian Peninsula in late antiquity. Its derivation is uncertain, it may be derived from Greek θερίζω (''therízō'') "to harvest or reap", or from θέρος (''theros'') "summer". It is first recorded in the form ''Therasia'', the name of Therasia of Nola, an aristocrat of the 4th century. Its popularity outside of Iberia increased because of saint Teresa of Ávila, and more recently Thérèse of Lisieux and Mother Teresa. In the United States it was ranked as the 852nd most popular name for girls born in 2008, down from 226th in 1992 (it ranked 65th in 1950, and 102nd in 1900). Spelled "Teresa," it was the 580th most popular name for girls born in 2008, down from 206th in 1992 (it ranked 81st in 1950, and 220th in 1900). People In aristocracy: * Teresa of Portugal (other) ** Theresa, Countess of Portugal (1080–1130), mother of Afonso Henriques, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernat Desclot
Bernard Desclot (in Catalan: Bernat Desclot) was a Catalan chronicler whose work covering the brief reign of Peter III of Aragon (1276–85) forms one of the four '' Catalan Grand Chronicles'' through which the modern historian views thirteenth- and fourteenth century military and political matters in the Kingdom of Aragon and the Principality of Catalonia,The other three sources are the autobiographies of James I of Aragon and Ramon Muntaner and the royal chronicle of Peter IV of Aragon. including the "Aragonese Crusade". Desclot's ''Chronicle'' begins in the eleventh century but gains especial interest when he comes to describe events current within living memory. Bernard's literary model was Romance, and his account is spiced with dramatic monologues of the central characters and thrilling episodes, such as the escape of Peter's brother, James II of Majorca, from the fortress of Perpignan, through the castle's drains. Nothing of Bernard himself is known save what little can be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toni Cucarella
Toni Cucarella is the pen name of Lluís Antoni Navarro i Cucarella (born 1959), a writer from Xàtiva, València. He began to work at fourteen years old, doing various jobs, the latest as a postman. Amongst his work are the novels: ''Cool: Fresc'' (1987), ''El poeta'' (1988), ''Bogart & Bogart'' (1993) and ''L'última paraula'' (1998), which earned him the Ciutat de Badalona and Critica dels Escriptors Valencians awards. He has also written the collection of stories ''La lluna vista des de la terra a través de tele'' (1990) and ''Llet agra i altres històries com sagrades'' (2002). ''Quina lenta agonia, la dels ametlers perduts'' won the Andromina Award 2003 as part of the 32nd October Awards for Catalan Literature. In juvenile fiction he has written ''Els ponts del diable'' (1995), Samaruc Award for Young Fiction, and ''El lledoner de l'Home Mort'' (1996). He has written articles for ''Levante-El Mercantil Valenciano'', ''El Punt'', ''Caracters'', ''Ciudad de Alcoi'', and Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaume Cuadrat
Jaume Cuadrat i Realp (1899 in l'Albagés – 1993 in Barcelona) was a Catalan writer in both Catalan and French languages. He lost his mother when he was a child and he started publishing his writings thanks to his father's sister, Rosa. He trained to be a teacher in Lleida and he worked as a teacher before he went into exile in France after the Spanish Civil War, where he was a Spanish language teacher in Nice Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative c .... He also collaborated with magazines such as ''Magisteri català''. Novels *''La semence de liberté: ou la vie d'un Instituteur espagnol parmi la misère et le fanatisme des Maragatos'', 1961 *''Les faux célibataires'', 1962 *''Sacrifiée ou la guerre civile espagnole'', 1965 References 1899 births 1993 death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Víctor Català
Caterina Albert i Paradís ( L'Escala, Spain, 11 September 1869 — 27 January 1966), better known by her pen name Víctor Català, was a Catalan writer in Catalan and Spanish who participated in the Modernisme movement and was the author of one of the signature works of the genre, ''Solitud'' (Solitude) (1905). Her literary skill was first recognized in 1898, when she received the Jocs Florals (floral games) prize; soon thereafter, she began using the pseudonym Victor Català, taking it from the protagonist of a novel she never finished. Despite her success as a dramatist and her forays into poetry, she is best known for her work in narrative literature, with the force of her style and the richness of her diction being especially noted. She died in her hometown of l’Escala, Catalonia, in 1966 and is interred in the Cementiri Vell de l’Escala. Biography Early Years and Modernism She began her literary career very young, collaborating with l’Almanach de L'Esquella de l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
