Max Roqueta ( Argelliers, December 8, 1908 – June 22, 2005) was one of the most famous contemporary Occitan writers. A physician, he was also an activist (he had been president of the Institut d'Estudis Occitans from 1952 to 1957).

Works

Prose

* ''Secrèt de l’èrba'' (1934) * ''Sòmnis dau matin'' (1940) * ''Sòmnis de la nuòch'' (1942) * ''L’Ataüt d’Arnautz Daniel'' (1949) * ''La Pietat dau matin'' (1963) * ''Vèrd Paradís'' (1961) * ''Vèrd Paradís II'' (1974) * ''Lo Maucòr de l'unicòrn'' (1992) * ''D'aicí mil ans de lutz'' (1995)

Poetry

* ''Lo Mètge de Cucunhan'' (1958) * ''Lo Manit e los encants'' (1996) * ''Tota la sabla de la mar'' (1997) * ''Lo Corbatàs roge'' (1997)

References

External links

a webstite devoted to Max Rouquette

J-F. Brun's pages about Occitan literature

Obituary in ''Libération''
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