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  Jaume Cabré

  Jaume Cabré i Fabré (Barcelona, 1947) is a philologist and Catalan writer.
  
  Graduated in Catalan Philology by the University of Barcelona, high-school professor in leave of absence and teacher to the University of Lleida, member of the Philological Section of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.
  
  During many years he has combined literary writing with teaching. He has also worked in the television and cinematographic scripting. With Joaquim Maria Puyal he was the creator and scriptwriter of the first Catalan television series: La Granja (1989-1992), after which followed other titles like Estació d'Enllaç (1994-1998), Crims (2000) and the tvmovies La dama blanca (1987), Nines russes (2003) and Sara (2003). He has also written, together with Jaume Fu

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  Natalia Ginzburg

  Natalia Ginzburg (née Levi) was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Most of her works were also translated into English and published in the United Kingdom and United States. An activist, for a time in the 1930s she belonged to the Italian Communist Party. In 1983 she was elected to Parliament from Rome as an Independent.

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  Thomas Mann

  Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
  
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  Serbian: Tomas Man
  
  Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important

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  Emilia Pardo Bazán

  Emilia Pardo Bazán was a Galician author and scholar from Galicia. She is known for bringing naturalism to Spanish literature, for her detailed descriptions of reality, and for her role in feminist literature of her era.
  Her first novel, Pascual López (1879), is a simple exercise in fantasy of no remarkable promise, though it contains good descriptive passages of romance. It was followed by a more striking story, Un viaje de novios (1881), in which a discreet attempt was made to introduce into Spain the methods of French realism. The book caused a sensation among the literary cliques, and this sensation was increased by the appearance of another naturalistic tale, La tribuna (1885), wherein the influence of Émile Zola is unmistakable. Meanwh

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  Alexander Pushkin

  Works of Russian writer Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin include the verse novel Eugene Onegin (1831), the play Boris Godunov (1831), and many narrative and lyrical poems and short stories.
  
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  Russian: Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
  French: Alexandre Pouchkine
  Norwegian: Aleksander Pusjkin
  Spanish:Aleksandr Pushkin
  
  People consider this author the greatest poet and the founder of modern literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated ever with greatly influential later literature.
  
  Pushkin published his first poem at the age of 15 years in 1814, and the literary establishment widely recognized him before the time of his graduation from the

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  Virginia Woolf

  (Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.
  
  During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

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  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄), OBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist of Japanese origin and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2017). His family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. He became a British citizen in 1982. He now lives in London.
  
  His first novel, A Pale View of Hills, won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, won the 1986 Whitbread Prize. Ishiguro received the 1989 Man Booker prize for his third novel The Remains of the Day. His fourth novel, The Unconsoled, won the 1995 Cheltenham Prize. His latest novel is The Buried Gia

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  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Булгаков) was a Russian writer, medical doctor, and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita , published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.
  
  He also wrote the novel The White Guard and the plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run ), and The Days of the Turbins . He wrote mostly about the horrors of the Russian Civil War and about the fate of Russian intellectuals and officers of the Tsarist Army caught up in revolution and Civil War.
  
  Some of his works ( Flight , all his works between the years 1922 and 1926, and others) were banned by the Soviet government, and personally by Joseph Stalin, after it was decided by them tha

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  William Faulkner

  William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and often is considered the greatest writer of Southern literature.
  Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in Oxford, Mississippi. During World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel Soldiers' Pay (1925). He went back to Oxford

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  Josep Maria de Sagarra

  Josep Maria de Sagarra i Castellarnau 1894-1961, Catalonian poet, novelist, and playwright. He published his first poems at the age of 12 and later, on the advice of his mentors Miquel Costa i Llobera and Joan Maragall i Gorina, abandoned law for writing. Among his important poetic works are Cançons d'abril i novembre [songs of April and November] (1918), which makes graceful use of regional idioms, and the epic poem El Comte Arnau [Count Arnau] (1928), which emphasizes the human aspects of myth. His numerous plays, which were enormously popular, are noted for their originality and grace of language; they include L'estudiant i la pubille (1921) and L'hostel de la glòria (1931). His novels are largely social satires.
  
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  Walter Benjamin

  Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, Jewish mysticism, and neo-Kantianism, Benjamin made influential contributions to aesthetic theory, literary criticism, and historical materialism. He was associated with the Frankfurt School and also maintained formative friendships with thinkers such as playwright Bertolt Brecht and Kabbalah scholar Gershom Scholem. He was related to German political theorist and philosopher Hannah Arendt through her first marriage to Benjamin's cousin Günther Anders, though the friendship between Arendt and Benjamin outlasted her marriage to Anders.

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  Francesc Serés

  Francesc Serés Guillén (Saidí, Baix Cinca, 22 de desembre de 1972) és un escriptor franjolí en llengua catalana establert a la Garrotxa. La seva obra literària inclou títols com De fems i de marbres (2003), La força de la gravetat (2006), Caure amunt. Muntaner, Llull, Roig (2008), Contes russos (2009) La pell de la frontera (2014) o La casa de foc (2020). Els seus textos han estat traduïts a diferents llengües i han estat guardonats amb el Premi Nacional de Literatura i el Premi Ciutat de Barcelona, entre d'altres. Col·labora habitualment al diari Ara i a altres mitjans de premsa escrita. Entre 2016 i 2021 fou director de la Residència Faber, a Olot. El juny del 2021 fou nomenat director de l'Institut Ramon Llull, del qual ja era director d

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  Sophocles

  Sophocles (497/496 BC-406/405 BC), (Greek: Σοφοκλής ; German: Sophokles , Russian: Софокл , French: Sophocle ) was an ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three from whom at least one play has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus; and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost fifty years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens which took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia

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  Joan Puig i Ferreter

  Joan Puig i Ferreter va néixer a La Selva del Camp el 5 de febrer de l'any 1882. Fill il·legítim d'un ric terratinent, va passar la infantesa i l'adolescència a Reus amb la seva mare a casa d'uns oncles. El seu pare mai va reconèixer-lo com a legítim. Als quinze anys, quan estudiava batxillerat a Reus, va entrar a formar part del Grup modernista de Reus. Faria amistat amb Josep Aladern, Hortensi Güell, Antoni Isern i Plàcid Vidal.
  

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  Irene Solà

  Irene Solà is a Spanish writer and an artist. She has exhibited her work at the CCCB in Barcelona and the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Her first book of poems Bèstia won the 2012 Amadeu Oller Prize and Dikes novel, the 2017 Documenta Prize.

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  Marià Vayreda i Vila

  Marià Vayreda (Olot, La Garrotxa, 1853 – 1903). Escriptor i pintor. De conviccions carlistes i, posteriorment, adscrit al catalanisme conservador de la Renaixença, la seva obra narrativa va molt lligada a la seva trajectòria personal. Així, amb l'experiència com a membre de l'Estat Major de l'exèrcit carlí, escriu Records de la darrera carlinada (1898). Més tard publica la novel·la Sang nova (1900) i la que ha estat considerada com la seva obra mestra, La punyalada (1904), una de les grans novel·les del realisme català. Al mateix temps escriu un gran nombre d'articles i relats breus, en bona mesura relacionats amb la seva terra natal de La Garrotxa. La vida pairal i el catalanisme en són alguns dels seus temes. Tot i que pinta alguns paisat

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  Miquel Martín i Serra

  Miquel Martín i Serra (Begur, 1969) és escriptor i llicenciat en filosofia. Ha publicat, entre altres obres, La drecera (Periscopi, 2020), Premi M. Àngels Anglada de narrativa, Premi El Setè Cel i finalista del Premi Òmnium a la millor novel·la de l’any; Quan els pobles no tenien nom (Sidillà, 2021); Llegendes de mar de la Costa Brava (Sidillà, 2012); i L’estratègia de la gallina (Columna, 2001), finalista del Premi Ramon Llull. És autor de diversos articles i assajos sobre Joan Vinyoli, entre els quals destaquen: Vinyoli trasbalsa la bellesa com el vi (Vibop, 2021), «Joan Vinyoli, el gall salvatge» (Premi Recvll de retrat literari 2019, publicat a El Punt Avui), «Les influències filosòfiques en la poesia de Vinyoli», dins el volum Joan Vin

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  Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

  Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir was born in Iceland in 1958, studied art history in Paris and has lectured in History of Art at the University of Iceland. Her earlier novel, The Greenhouse (2007), won the DV Culture Award for literature and was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Award. She currently lives and works in Reykjavik.

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  Anton Chekhov

  Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.
  
  Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.
  
  "When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867

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  Ragnar Jónasson

  Ragnar Jonasson is author of the award winning and international bestselling Dark Iceland series.
  
  His debut Snowblind, first in the Dark Iceland series, went to number one in the Amazon Kindle charts shortly after publication. The book was also a no. 1 Amazon Kindle bestseller in Australia. Snowblind has been a paperback bestseller in France.
  
  Nightblind won the Dead Good Reader Award 2016 for Most Captivating Crime in Translation.
  
  Snowblind was called a "classically crafted whodunit" by THE NEW YORK TIMES, and it was selected by The Independent as one of the best crime novels of 2015 in the UK.
  
  Rights to the Dark Iceland series have been sold to UK, USA, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, Poland, Turkey, South Korea, Japan, Morocco, Po

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  Manuel Baixauli

  Manuel Baixauli (Sueca, 1963) és pintor i escriptor. És autor de la novel·la L'home manuscrit, que va acumular els guardons següents: Premi Mallorca de Narrativa, 2006; Premi Salambó de Narrativa en Català, 2008; Premi Nacional de la Crítica Catalana, 2008; Premi Biennal de la Crítica de l'Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana, 2007-2008; Premi de la Crítica dels Escriptors Valencians, 2008; Premi Qwerty de Narrativa en Català, 2008. Abans de L'home manuscrit, que l'ha convertit en una referència ineludible per a lectors i crítics, havia publicat la novel·la Verso (Premi Ciutat d'Alzira, 2001) i la seva òpera prima, Espiral (Premi Ciutat de Badalona, 1998), volum insòlit de contes breus que, reescrits, Edicions Proa va reeditar

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  Llorenç Villalonga

  Llorenç Villalonga (Palma, 1897-1980), escriptor i metge psiquiatre. Estudia medicina i s'especialitza en psiquiatria (1919-1927). Exerceix com a metge a Palma, primer en una consulta privada i després a l'Hospital Psiquiàtric de la ciutat. A més, és nomenat secretari del Col·legi Oficial de Metges de les Balears. Villalonga comença la seva trajectòria literària col·laborant al diari Día de Palma amb un conjunt d'articles marcats clarament per les seves conviccions anticatalanistes i antirepublicanes. Ben aviat, però, surt a la llum la seva primera novel·la Mort de dama (1931), que signa amb el pseudònim de Dhey. Aquesta obra de marcat caràcter esperpèntic, es va veure envoltada d'una gran controvèrsia dins el món regional mallorquí que s'h

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  Maria Barbal

  Maria Barbal is a Catalan writer. Even though she has lived in Barcelona from the 1960s onward, the literary world of her early work as an author concentrates on the Pallars county of her childhood and adolescence, a rural surrounding observed by a critical eye. Her first novel, Pedra de tartera [‘Stone from a boulder’], fully set in that space, was praised by the public and critics alike. Her first novel has been translated into English as Stone in a Landslide
  
  

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  Víctor Català

  Victor Català was the penname of Caterina Albert i Paradís, a catalan writer who took part in catalan Modernism movement. Her literary skill was first recognized in 1898, when she received the Jocs Florals (floral games) prize; soon thereafter, she began using the pseudonym Victor Català, taking it from the protagonist of a novel she never finished. Despite her success as a dramatist and her forays into poetry, she is best known for her work in narrative literature, with the force of her style and the richness of her diction being especially noted. She died in her hometown of l’Escala, Catalonia, in 1966 and is interred in the Cementiri Vell de l’Escala.

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  Katherine Mansfield

  Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp) was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction who wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield.
  
  Katherine Mansfield is widely considered one of the best short story writers of her period. A number of her works, including "Miss Brill", "Prelude", "The Garden Party", "The Doll's House", and later works such as "The Fly", are frequently collected in short story anthologies. Mansfield also proved ahead of her time in her adoration of Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov, and incorporated some of his themes and techniques into her writing.
  
  Katherine Mansfield was part of a "new dawn" in English literature with T.S. Eliot, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. She was associat

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  Mercè Rodoreda

  Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí was a Catalan novelist.
  
  She is considered by many to be the most important Catalan novelist of the postwar period. Her novel "La plaça del diamant" ('The diamond square', translated as 'The Time of the Doves', 1962) has become the most acclaimed Catalan novel of all time and since the year it was published for the first time, it has been translated into over 20 languages. It's also considered by many to be best novel dealing with the Spanish Civil War.

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  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez, is a Spanish novelist and ex-journalist. He worked as a war reporter for twenty-one years (1973 - 1994). He started his journalistic career writing for the now-defunct newspaper Pueblo. Then, he jumped to news reporter for TVE, Spanish national channel. As a war journalist he traveled to several countries, covering many conflicts. He put this experience into his book 'Territorio Comanche', focusing on the years of Bosnian massacres. That was in 1994, but his debut as a fiction writer started in 1983, with 'El húsar', a historical novella inspired in the Napoleonic era.
  
  Although his debut was not quite successful, in 1988, with 'The Fencing Master', he put his name as a serious writer of historic novels. That

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  Stefan Zweig

  Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.
  Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.
  Zweig's interest in psychology and the teachings of Sigmund Freu

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  Miquel Llor

  Miquel Llor (Barcelona, 1894 - 1966). Novel·lista, contista i traductor. La seva prosa, molt elaborada, fa patent la influència de Joyce, Proust, Svevo, Dostoievski i Freud, i és essencial per entendre la recuperació i l'evolució del gènere novel·lístic en la literatura catalana del segle XX, que havia estat minimitzat per moviments com el Noucentisme. Llor es va consagrar amb Laura a la ciutat dels sants (1931), premi Joan Crexells 1930, novel·la on descriu amb profunditat l'atmosfera d'una ciutat hostil al comportament de la protagonista femenina, i que permet a l'autor efectuar una anàlisi pròxima al realisme psicològic. Va treballar durant molts anys a la secció de cultura de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona com a responsable de la correcció o

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  Dagoll Dagom

  Dagoll Dagom fou creada el 1974 per Joan Oller, i s’estrenà amb dos espectacles d’arrel poètica:Yo era un tonto y lo que he visto me ha hecho dos tontos (1974), amb textos de Rafael Alberti, iNocturn per a acordió (1975), amb textos de Joan Salvat-Papasseit. Els seus primers espectacles amb èxit de públic van ser No hablaré en clase (1977), Antaviana (1978) i Nit de Sant Joan(1981). Aquestes obres consagraren la companyia com una aposta diferent dins el panorama del teatre català. A partir d’aleshores la seva carrera, sota la direcció artística de Joan Lluís Bozzo, Anna Rosa Cisquella i Miquel Periel, ha estat fulgurant. Destaquen els musicals Glups!! (1983), El Mikado (1986), Mar i cel (1988/2004/2014), Flor de nit (1992), T’odio, amor meu

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  Santiago Rusiñol

  Santiago Rusiñol (Barcelona, 1861 - Aranjuez, 1931) Autor dramàtic, narrador, pintor i col·leccionista.
  Va iniciar la seva carrera creativa com a pintor, i amb posterioritat es va dedicar a la literatura amb més de noranta títols de tots els gèneres. En teatre, primer va fer petits monòlegs i, de seguida, obres com L'alegria que passa (1891) i El Jardí abandonat (1900), d'alt contingut simbolista. Format a París, va ser un dels precursors del modernisme a Catalunya, amb plataformes com El Cau Ferrat, a Sitges, o Els Quatre Gats, a Barcelona. Es va convertir en un dels escriptors més reeditats de la seva època. D'una de les seves novel·les més conegudes, L'auca del senyor Esteve (1907), en va fer una versió teatral, que ha esdevingut un clàs

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  Vicenç Pagès Jordà

  Vicenç Pagès Jordà va néixer l'any 1963 a Figueres. El 1989 va guanyar la Biennal de Barcelona en l'apartat de literatura, i l'any següent va aparèixer el seu primer llibre, el recull de contes titulat Cercles d'infinites combinacions (ed. Empúries). El 1991 va publicar l'obra de bricolatge textual titulada Grandeses i misèries dels premis literaris (Llibres de l'Índex), formada per un miler de citacions. L'any 1995 va aparèixer la seva obra més ambiciosa, El món d'Horaci (ed. Empúries), una novel·la que es troba a mig camí entre la ficció i l'assaig creatiu. L'any 1997 va veure la llum el seu llibre de més èxit, la novel·la curta Carta a la reina d'Anglaterra (ed. Empúries), que narra en cent pàgines mil anys de la vida del protagonista.
  
  A

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  Xavier Benguerel

  Xavier Benguerel (Barcelona, 1905-1990), escriptor i traductor. Resideix al barri del Poblenou de Barcelona fins als 33 anys. L'any 1929 s'incorpora a la novel·la catalana amb Pàgines d'un adolescent. Des d'aleshores escriu més de vint novel·les, un recull de poemes, tres obres de teatre, quatre reculls de narracions i dos llibres de memòries. Abans de la guerra civil espanyola ja havia publicat la novel·la Suburbi (1936), ambientada al barri obrer del Poblenou, ara pràcticament desaparegut per la transformació dels Jocs Olímpics del 1992. En acabar la guerra, s'exilia a Xile fins al 1954. En tornar a Catalunya, reprèn la publicació de novel·les de fons autobiogràfic com El testament i la sèrie de novel·les d'Els vençuts, sobre l'exili. Gua

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