Bartomeu Rosselló-Pòrcel (; 3 August 1913 in

Palma, Majorca Palma (, ; ), also known as Palma de Mallorca (officially between 1983 and 1988, 2006–2008, and 2012–2016), is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is situated on the south coast of M ...

– 5 January 1938 in

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) was a Spanish Balearic poet, who wrote in Catalan. He was born to a modest family and completed his secondary school education as a student of Gabriel Alomar i Villalong in l'Institut de Palma. He completed his bachelor's degree in arts and philosophy in

where he met his lifelong friend and renowned Catalan poet,

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 t ...

. Rosselló-Pòrcel dedicated 'Imitació del Foc' to Espriu. He completed his PhD degree in

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. In 1933, he embarked on a university Mediterranean cruise with Espriu and two of his other colleagues, touring Egypt, Lebanon, Greece, Rhodes, and Palestine. When in Palestine, he and Espriu heard what may have been the last records of Qatalanit, a Jewish diasporic language also known as Judeo-Catalan. In the final days of his trip, he fell ill with tuberculosis. He died of

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at the age of 24.

Works

*''Nou poemes'' (Nine poems) 1933 *''Quadern de sonets'' (Notebook of sonnets) 1934 *''Imitació del foc'' (Imitation of fire), 1938 His works were greatly influenced by the Mallorcan literary movement of l'Escola Mallorquina, though he was also influenced by other tendencies such as surrealism and neopopularism, similar to that of Spanish writers Rafael Alberti or Federico García Lorca.

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* People from Palma de Mallorca Catalan-language poets 1913 births 1938 deaths 20th-century Spanish poets 20th-century Spanish male writers 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in Spain {{Spain-poet-stub