Josep Maria Corredor (; 3 June 1912 – 29 September 1981) was a Catalan writer, translator, teacher and cultural activist.

Life

Born on 3 June 1912 in

Girona Girona (; ) is the capital city of the Province of Girona in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers. The city had an official population of 106,476 in 2024, but the p ...

, he was the youngest of the three sons of Manuel Corredor and Serafina Pomés. After the proclamation of the

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he joined the progressive and intellectual movements of his city and started to write in the local press. After studying to become a school teacher in Girona he moved first to Madrid and then to Barcelona to study philosophy. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936 he had to interrupt his studies and join the army. At the end of the War and with the republicans defeated, Corredor went into exile in

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and finished his studies at the University there. When the Second World War ended he settled in the French Catalan city of

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where he was married, had a daughter and started a prolific career as a cultural activist. Shortly he met the main figures from the Catalan exile such as

Pompeu Fabra Pompeu Fabra i Poch (; Gràcia, Barcelona, 20 February 1868 – Prada de Conflent, 25 December 1948) was a Catalan engineer and grammarian. He was the main author of the normative reform of contemporary Catalan language, and is the namesa ...

, Antoni Rovira i Virgili and

Pablo Casals Pau Casals i Defilló (Catalan: ; 29 December 187622 October 1973), known in English as Pablo Casals,Antonio Machado Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz (26 July 1875 – 22 February 1939), known as Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation ...

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. During the 1960s Corredor resumed his collaborations with the Catalan press and following the death of the dictator Francisco Franco he returned to Girona. However, the

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disappointed him and he found himself out of place. On 29 September 1981 Corredor committed suicide in Perpignan, where he is buried. He was 69 years old.

Work

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Joan Maragall Joan Maragall i Gorina (; 10 October 1860 – 20 December 1911) was a Catalan poet, journalist and translator, the foremost member of the movement in literature. His manuscripts are preserved in the Joan Maragall Archive of Barcelona. Li ...

. Un esprit méditerranéen'' (1951). * ''Conversations avec

Pablo Casals Pau Casals i Defilló (Catalan: ; 29 December 187622 October 1973), known in English as Pablo Casals,1912 births 1981 deaths Translators from Catalonia Writers from Catalonia Spanish activists 20th-century Spanish educators Suicides in Spain 20th-century Spanish translators 1981 suicides