Clementina Arderiu (1889 in

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– 1976) was a Spanish poet who wrote in the

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 I ...

. Influences on her work included the Catalan language writer

Josep Carner Josep Carner i Puigoriol (; Barcelona 9 February 1884 – Brussels 4 June 1970), was a Spanish poet, journalist, playwright and translator. He was also known as ''the Prince of Catalan Poets''. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literat ...

, and her husband, the poet

Carles Riba Carles Riba i Bracons (; 23 September 189312 July 1959) was a Catalan poet, writer and translator. He was born in Barcelona and studied Law and Philosophy at the Universitat de Barcelona. In 1916 he married the poet Clementina Arderiu. He work ...

. Her poems tend to idealize daily life.

Works

*''Cançons i elegies'', 1916 *''L'alta llibertat'', 1920 *''Poemes'', 1936 *''Sempre i ara'', 1946, Joaquim Folguera prize *''Poesies completes'', 1952 *''És a dir'', 1968, Óssa Menor prize and Lletra d'Or prize *''L’esperança encara'', 1968

Recording from the Library of Congress

: Clementina Arderíu reading twelve poems from her collected volumes, Poesia completas,195

References

* 1889 births 1976 deaths Catalan-language poets 20th-century Spanish poets Spanish women poets 20th-century Spanish women writers Writers from Barcelona {{Spain-poet-stub