Francesc Trabal (1899–1957) was a Catalan novelist, journalist and humorist. He was one of the founders of the ''Colla de Sabadell'' (the Sabadell Gang), where they started La Mirada publishing house. They promoted Catalan culture, literature and humour using the newspaper ''El Diari de Sabadell'' (Sabadell Newspaper) as a platform. He was one of the founders of the El Club dels Novel·listes (Novelists Club), predecessor of today's

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. He went into exile in Chile during the

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, where he continued promoting Catalan culture. He started a Chilean-Catalan Institute for Culture, along with different publishing initiatives.

Works

(All originally written in Catalan) * ''L'any que ve'' (1925) * ''L'home que es va perdre'' (1929). Translated to French by Marie-Jose Castaing and to Spanish by

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. * ''Judita'' (1930). Translated to Spanish by

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(1941), Montserrat Planas &

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(1972); and to French by Montserrat Prudon (1994) * ''Quo vadis, Sànchez?'' with drawings by Valentí Castanys (1931) * ''Era una dona com les altres'' (1932) * ''Hi ha homes que ploren perquè el sol es pon'' (1933) * ''Vals'' (1935), Translated to Spanish by

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(1945) and to English by Martha Tennent as ''Waltz'' (2013) * ''Temperatura'' (1947). Translated to Spanish by himself (1947)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Trabal, Francesc 1899 births 1957 deaths Writers from Catalonia People from Sabadell Catalan-language writers Exiles of the Spanish Civil War in Chile