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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 * Ester Bonet * Edmond Brazes * Joan Brossa C * Jaume Cabré * Maria Teresa Cabré * Pere Calders * Mercè Canela * Josep Carner * Maite Carranza * Jordi Casanovas * Víctor Català * Miquel Costa i Llobera * 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalan Language
Catalan () is a Western Romance languages, Western Romance language and is the official language of Andorra, and the official language of three autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous communities in eastern Spain: Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community, where it is called ''Valencian language, Valencian'' (). It has semi-official status in the Italy, Italian ''comune'' of Alghero, and it is spoken in the Pyrénées-Orientales department of France and in two further areas in eastern Spain: the La Franja, eastern strip of Aragon and the Carche area in the Region of Murcia. The Catalan-speaking territories are often called the or "Països Catalans". The language evolved from Vulgar Latin in the Middle Ages around the eastern Pyrenees. It became the language of the Principality of Catalonia and the kingdoms of kingdom of Valencia, Valencia and Kingdom of Majorca, Mallorca, being present throughout the Mediterranean. Replaced by Spanish as a language of gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pere Calders
Pere Calders i Rossinyol (; 29 September 1912 – 21 July 1994) was a Catalan writer and cartoonist. Biography He became known at the beginning of the 1930s for his drawings, articles and stories which were published in newspapers and magazines. At twenty-four, he published his first books: the collection of stories ''El primer arlequí'' (The first harlequin), and the brief novel ''La glòria del doctor Larén'' (Doctor Laren's glory). Exiled in Mexico for twenty-three years, along with his brother-in-law (the writer Avel·lí Artís Gener "Tísner"), he composed his most critically well-received works, in particular the short stories ''Cròniques de la veritat oculta'' (Chronicles of the hidden truth, 1955) and ''Gent de l'alta vall'' (People of the high valley, 1957), and the novel ''Ronda naval sota la boira'' (Raval round under the fog, 1966). He returned to Catalonia in 1962. Alongside publishing work and journalistic collaborations, he wrote ''L'ombra de l'atzavara'' ... [...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 Valencian 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, and one of the most important poets in Catalan language in the 20th Century. 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, and by poetry in Catalan language, such as Catalan poets Màrius Torres, Jacint Verdaguer, Josep Carner, Carles Rib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvador Espriu
Salvador Espriu i Castelló (; 10 July 1913 – 22 February 1985) was a Catalan poet from Spain. 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 met his lifelong friend Bartomeu Rosselló-Pòrcel. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesc Eiximenis
Francesc Eiximenis (; – 1409) was a Franciscan Catalan people, 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 of Aragon, Peter IV, John I of Aragon, John I and Martin of Aragon, Martin I, the queen Maria de Luna (wife of Martin I), and the Pope of Avignon Antipope Benedict XIII, 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 Catalonia. Later, he attended the most important universities of Europe: the University of Oxford and the University of Paris. The University of Oxford influence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teresa Duran
Teresa (also Theresa, Therese; ) 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". Another origin of the name is from Latin word "Terra" which means earth. Terra mother Earth. 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 Aristocracy *Teresa of Portugal (other) ** Theresa, C ... [...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 (1276–1285) 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 ca ... [...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 Vil ... [...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 Marseilles, France after the Spanish Civil War, where he was a Spanish language teacher in Nice Nice ( ; ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one million [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miquel Costa I Llobera
Miquel Costa i Llobera (10 March 1854 – 16 October 1922) was a Spanish poet from Majorca. He mainly wrote in Catalan language. He is regarded as a prominent figure of Catalan poetry. Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo described him as an excellent lyric poet who would rank among the greatest in any nation and during the finest literary periods. Biography Early years, romanticism, and ''The Pine of Formentor'' Born in the Majorcan town of Pollença, Spain, in 1854, he was the son of a family of rural owners and was orphaned as a mother at the age of eleven. He grew up very influenced by his uncle, a medical doctor in Pollença, who introduced him to the local landscape and his interest in classical literature. He studied in Madrid and Barcelona, where he met Antoni Rubió i Lluch and was a disciple of the writer Josep Lluís Pons i Gallarza. In 1874 he won an award at the Floral Games. He cultivated, in a first stage, romantic poetry, exemplified in his best-known poem, ''Th ... [...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 language, Catalan and Spanish language, 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 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordi Casanovas
Jordi Casanovas Güell (; born 1978 in Vilafranca del Penedès) is a Catalan playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes play (theatre), plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for Theatre, theatrical performance rather than just Readin .... Bibliography Plays Les millors occasions. 2002 Gebre. 2003 Estralls. 2003 Andorra. 2004 Neoburning Generation. 2005 Beckenbauer. 2005 Kuina Katalana. 2005 Wolfenstein. 2006 Tetris. 2006 City/Simcity. 2007 Aquesta tampoc serà la fi del món. 2007 La ruïna. 2008 Lena Woyzeck. 2008 La revolució. 2009 Julia Smells. 2009 Transició. 2010 Sopar amb batalla. 2010 Un home amb ulleres de pasta. 2010 Una història catalana. 2011 Pàtria. 2012 Köttbulle. 2014 Ruz-Bárcenas. 2014 Idiota. 2014 Vilafranca. 2015 Hey Boy Hey Girl. 2015 Port Arthur. 2015 Cervantes. 2016 Awarded plays *Les millors occasions Premi Internacional AIET de Teatre Universitari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
