Joan Maragall
Joan Maragall was a catalan poet, journalist and also translator, the foremost member of the modernism movement in literature in Catalonia. His manuscripts are preserved in the Joan Maragall Archive of Barcelona.
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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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Maria Aurèlia Capmany
Maria Aurèlia Capmany (Barcelona, 1918-1991). Novel·lista, autora de teatre i assagista. És una de les escriptores catalanes més polifacètiques. El 1947 queda finalista del Premi de novel·la Joanot Martorell amb Necessitem morir i el guanya l'any següent amb El cel no és transparent. El seu prestigi com a narradora li arribarà, però, el 1956 amb l'obra Betúlia. El 1959 funda amb Ricard Salvat l'Escola d'Art Dramàtic Adrià Gual, on exerceix de professora, fa d'actriu, de directora i de traductora. També hi estrena tres obres pròpies. En aquesta mateixa etapa és quan apareixen dues novel·les bàsiques en la seva producció, escrites anteriorment, El gust de la pols i Un lloc entre els morts, premi Sant Jordi 1968. Com a assagista, dedica nombro
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24, but resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and probably vascular dementia. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister
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Antonio Buero Vallejo
Antonio Buero Vallejo was a Spanish playwright considered the most important Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Civil War. During his career he won three National Theatre Prizes (in 1957, 1958 & 1959), a National Theatre Prize for all his career in 1980, the National Literature Prize in 1996, and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Spain's highest literary honour, in 1986. From 1971 until his death he was a member of the Real Academia Española.
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From 1934 to 1936 Vallejo studied art and painting at San Fernando Escuela de Arte, in Madrid. During the civil war, he served as a medical aid in the Republican army. After the war he was imprisoned for six years. After being released he wrote Story of a Stairway in 1949. This work presented a graphic pictu -
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr -
Benito Pérez Galdós
People know Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós especially for his Episodios Nacionales (1873-1912), a series of 46 historical novels.
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Benito Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist. Some authorities consider him second only to Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist. He was the leading literary figure in 19th century Spain.
Galdós was a prolific writer, publishing 31 novels, 46 Episodios Nacionales (National Episodes), 23 plays, and the equivalent of 20 volumes of shorter fiction, journalism and other writings. He remains popular in Spain, and galdosistas (Galdós researchers) considered him Spain's equal to Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy. As recently as 1950, few of his works were available translated to English, although he has slow -
Carmen Laforet
Carmen Laforet Y Díaz was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature and her first novel Nada continued the Spanish Tremendismo literary style begun by Camilo José Cela with his novel, La familia de Pascual Duarte.
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Fernando de Rojas
We know little information about Fernando de Rojas, a Castilian author.
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He wrote La Celestina , originally titled Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, in 1499. People see this description of a tragic love affair as the beginning of literary Renaissance of Spain. The author published anonymously but revealed his name and famous birthplace in an acrostic code at the beginning of the second edition in the year 1500. None of his contemporaries mention him, and we know of no other work.
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Ana María Matute
(Barcelona, 1925-2014) Escritora española. Novelista destacada de la llamada generación de los "niños asombrados", su obra describe el ambiente de la posguerra civil. Ana María Matute se dio a conocer en la escena literaria española con Los Abel (1948), una novela inspirada en la historia bíblica de los hijos de Adán y Eva, en la cual reflejó la atmósfera española inmediatamente posterior a la contienda civil desde el punto de vista de la percepción infantil. Este enfoque se mantuvo constante a lo largo de su primera producción novelística y fue común a otros representantes de su generación.
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Las novelas de Ana María Matute no están exentas de compromiso social, si bien es cierto que no se adscriben explícitamente a ninguna ideología política -
Mercè Rodoreda
Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí was a Catalan novelist.
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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. -
Federico García Lorca
Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5 1898; died near Granada, August 19 1936, García Lorca is one of Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poets and dramatists. His murder by the Nationalists at the start of the Spanish civil war brought sudden international fame, accompanied by an excess of political rhetoric which led a later generation to question his merits; after the inevitable slump, his reputation has recovered (largely with a shift in interest to the less obvious works). He must now be bracketed with Machado as one of the two greatest poets Spain has produced in the 20th century, and he is certainly Spain's greatest dramatist since the Golden Age.
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Joanot Martorell
Joanot Martorell (1413 – 1468) was a Valencian knight and the author of the novel Tirant lo Blanch, written in the Valencian vernacular (Martorell calls it vulgar llengua valenciana) and published at Valencia in 1490.
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It deals with the adventures of a knight in the Byzantine Empire. Miguel de Cervantes in the book burning scene of Don Quixote considers it the best chivalry novel. Martorell was a chivalrous man and suffered an early death due to court intrigue, leading to a colleague, Martí Joan de Galba, finishing the novel.
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Kentaro Miura
Kentarou Miura (三浦建太郎) was born in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, in 1966. He is left-handed. In 1976, at the early age of 10, Miura made his first Manga, entitled "Miuranger", that was published for his classmates in a school publication; the manga ended up spanning 40 volumes. In 1977, Miura created his second manga called Ken e no michi (剣への道 The Way to the Sword), using Indian ink for the first time. When he was in middle school in 1979, Miura's drawing techniques improved greatly as he started using professional drawing techniques. His first dōjinshi was published, with the help of friends, in a magazine in 1982.
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That same year, in 1982, Miura enrolled in an artistic curriculum in high school, where he and his classmates started p -
Maria Aurèlia Capmany
Maria Aurèlia Capmany (Barcelona, 1918-1991). Novel·lista, autora de teatre i assagista. És una de les escriptores catalanes més polifacètiques. El 1947 queda finalista del Premi de novel·la Joanot Martorell amb Necessitem morir i el guanya l'any següent amb El cel no és transparent. El seu prestigi com a narradora li arribarà, però, el 1956 amb l'obra Betúlia. El 1959 funda amb Ricard Salvat l'Escola d'Art Dramàtic Adrià Gual, on exerceix de professora, fa d'actriu, de directora i de traductora. També hi estrena tres obres pròpies. En aquesta mateixa etapa és quan apareixen dues novel·les bàsiques en la seva producció, escrites anteriorment, El gust de la pols i Un lloc entre els morts, premi Sant Jordi 1968. Com a assagista, dedica nombro
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Henao was a dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age.
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Calderón initiated what has been called the second cycle of Spanish Golden Age theatre. Whereas his predecessor, Lope de Vega, pioneered the dramatic forms and genres of Spanish Golden Age theatre, Calderón polished and perfected them. Whereas Lope's strength lay in the sponteneity and naturalness of his work, Calderón's strength lay in his capacity for poetic beauty, dramatic structure and philosophical depth. Calderón was a perfectionist who often revisited and reworked his plays, even long after they debuted. This perfectionism was not just limited to his own work: many of his plays rework existing plays or scenes by other dramatists, improving their depth, comp -
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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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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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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Baltasar Gracián
Baltasar Gracián y Morales, SJ, formerly Anglicized as Baltazar Gracian, was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragón). His proto-existentialist writings were lauded by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.
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The son of a doctor, in his childhood Gracián lived with his uncle, who was a priest. He studied at a Jesuit school in 1621 and 1623 and theology in Zaragoza. He was ordained in 1627 and took his final vows in 1635.
He assumed the vows of the Jesuits in 1633 and dedicated himself to teaching in various Jesuit schools. He spent time in Huesca, where he befriended the local scholar Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa, who helped him achieve an important milestone in his intellectual upbringing. -
Santiago Rusiñol
Santiago Rusiñol (Barcelona, 1861 - Aranjuez, 1931) Autor dramàtic, narrador, pintor i col·leccionista.
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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 -
Hermann Hesse
Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946.
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Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game , which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society.
In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world; worldwide fame only came later. Young Germans desiring a different and more "natural" way of life at the time of great economic and technological progress in the country, received enthusiastically Peter Camenzind , first great -
Àngel Guimerà
Àngel Guimerà i Jorge (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 6 de maig de 1845 - Barcelona, 18 de juliol de 1924) fou dramaturg, polític i poeta en llengua catalana. La seva extensa obra, notable per unir a una aparença romàntica els elements principals del realisme, el va convertir en un dels màxims exponents de la Renaixença o "ressorgiment" de les lletres catalanes a l'acabament del segle xix.
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Fill de pare català i mare canària, va passar els primers anys de la seva vida a Tenerife. Als set anys va anar a viure a Catalunya, on es va adaptar ràpidament. Fou una de les figures més destacades de la Renaixença, tant política com literària. Tot i que va iniciar la seva carrera amb la poesia, la major part de la seva obra literària estigué dedicada al teatre -
Mireia Calafell
Mireia Calafell i Obiol (Barcelona, 23 de juny de 1980) és una poeta, escriptora i productora cultural catalana. Alguns dels seus poemes formen part d'antologies publicades a l'Argentina, Brasil, Holanda, Regne Unit, Emirats Àrabs i Espanya.
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Llicenciada en Humanitats per la Universitat Pompeu Fabra, treballa a Sullivan, des d'on desenvolupa projectes culturals i educatius. Va ser codirectora del festival Poesia i + (2016 i 2017) i des del 2018 és codirectora del festival Barcelona Poesia. -
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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Eva Baltasar
Eva Baltasar is a Catalan poet and writer. She has a bachelor's degree in Pedagogy from the University of Barcelona. She has published ten books of poetry, which have earned numerous awards including the 2008 Miquel de Palol, the 2010 Benet Ribas, and the 2015 Gabriel Ferrater. Permafrost was her first novel.
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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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Raimon Casellas
Raimon Casellas i Dou (1855 - 1910) was a Catalan novelist, art critic, and historian.
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Santiago Rusiñol
Santiago Rusiñol (Barcelona, 1861 - Aranjuez, 1931) Autor dramàtic, narrador, pintor i col·leccionista.
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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 -
Josep Carner
Josep Carner (Barcelona, 1884 - Brussel·les, 1970) és conegut com "el príncep dels poetes catalans". Renovador de la poesia, de la llengua i de la prosa. Crea un nou estil de periodisme polític. Llicenciat en Dret i en Filosofia i Lletres, ingressa a la carrera diplomàtica. Exerceix càrrecs a Gènova, San José de Costa Rica, Le Havre, Hendaia, Beirut, Brussel·les i París. Durant la Guerra Civil espanyola es manté fidel a la República i no torna a residir mai més a Catalunya. El llibre de poemes Els fruits saborosos (1906) és considerat per la crítica com una de les fites del Noucentisme, moviment del qual Carner n'és capdavanter. La seva obra poètica evoluciona cap al postsimbolisme, amb llibres com Auques i ventalls, El cor quiet i Nabí. Ta
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