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  Gabriel Ferrater

  Gabriel Ferrater (Reus, 1922 - Sant Cugat del Vallès, 1972). Escriptor i lingüista. Autor d'una de les més rellevants obres poètiques de la literatura catalana de postguerra, amb tres únics reculls Da nuces pueris (1960), Menja't una cama (1962), Teoria dels cossos (1966), que va aplegar en un volum, i Les dones i els dies (1968) que va suposar el punt i final d'una aventura poètica insòlita en el marc de les lletres catalanes. L'erotisme franc i el pas del temps són una constant en la seva obra. Els poemes "In memoriam" i "Poema inacabat", són uns dels testimonis més valuosos de la guerra civil i de les seves conseqüències. Professor de lingüística i crítica literària a la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, va començar a escriure una sèrie

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  Carles Soldevila

  Carles Soldevila i Zubiburu (Barcelona, 1892-1967). Germà de l'historiador Ferran Soldevila, va ser dramaturg, poeta, periodista i novel·lista català. Va endegar una important tasca com a promotor cultural, amb l'objectiu d'educar en els valors del Noucentisme el públic barceloní de l'època. Amb el seu projecte, va contribuir a donar al país una identitat catalana moderna.
  
  Photo credit © Arxiu Nacional de Catalunya

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  Salman Rushdie

  Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
  After his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), Rushdie became the subject of several assassination attempts and death threats, including a fatwa calling for his death issued by Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of Iran. In total, 20 countries bann

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  George Orwell

  Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both fascism and stalinism), and support of democratic socialism.
  
  Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican fact

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  Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

  Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎) was a Japanese author, and one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki.
  
  Some of his works present a rather shocking world of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions; others, less sensational, subtly portray the dynamics of family life in the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japanese society.
  
  Frequently his stories are narrated in the context of a search for cultural identity in which constructions of "the West" and "Japanese tradition" are juxtaposed. The results are complex, ironic, demure, and provocative.

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  John Cheever

  John Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs" or "the Ovid of Ossining." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the suburbs of Westchester, New York, and old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born.
  
  His main themes include the duality of human nature: sometimes dramatized as the disparity between a character's decorous social persona and inner corruption, and sometimes as a conflict between two characters (often brothers) who embody the salient aspects of both--light and dark, flesh and spirit. Many of his works also express a nostalgia for a vanishing way of life, characterized by abiding cult

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  Rainer Maria Rilke

  A mystic lyricism and precise imagery often marked verse of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose collections profoundly influenced 20th-century German literature and include The Book of Hours (1905) and The Duino Elegies (1923).
  
  People consider him of the greatest 20th century users of the language.
  
  His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.
  
  His two most famous sequences include the Sonnets to Orpheus , and his most famous prose works include the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malt

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  Irène Némirovsky

  Irène Némirovsky was born in Kyiv in 1903 into a successful banking family. Trapped in Moscow by the Russian Revolution, she and her family fled first to a village in Finland, and eventually to France, where she attended the Sorbonne.
  
  Irène Némirovsky achieved early success as a writer: her first novel, David Golder, published when she was twenty-six, was a sensation. By 1937 she had published nine further books and David Golder had been made into a film; she and her husband Michel Epstein, a bank executive, moved in fashionable social circles.
  
  When the Germans occupied France in 1940, she moved with her husband and two small daughters, aged 5 and 13, from Paris to the comparative safety of Issy-L’Evêque. It was there that she secretly began

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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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  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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  Antonio Tabucchi

  Antonio Tabucchi was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy.
  
  Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator of the works of the writer Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of saudade, of fiction and of the heteronyms. Tabucchi was first introduced to Pessoa's works in the 1960s when attending the Sorbonne. He was so charmed that, back in Italy, he attended a course of Portuguese language for a better comprehension of the poet.

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  Montserrat Roig

  Montserrat Roig i Fransitorra (Barcelona, 13 de juny de 1946 - 10 de novembre de 1991) fou una escriptora en català de novel·les, contes, assaig, reportatges i articles periodístics. Va presentar i dirigir diversos programes de televisió, mitjà en el qual va excel·lir com a entrevistadora a escriptors de generacions precedents.
  
  Novel·la
  Ramona, adéu! (1972)
  El temps de les cireres (1977)
  L'hora violeta (1980)
  L'òpera quotidiana (1985)
  La veu melodiosa (1987)
  
  No ficció
  Els catalans als camps nazis (1977)
  L'agulla daurada (1985)
  L'autèntica història de Catalunya (1990)
  Digues que m'estimes encara que sigui mentida (1991)
  Un pensament de sal, un pessic de pebre : dietari obert (1992)
  

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  Lucia Berlin

  Berlin began publishing relatively late in life, under the encouragement and sometimes tutelage of poet Ed Dorn. Her first small collection, Angels Laundromat was published in 1981, but her published stories were written as early as 1960. Several of her stories appeared in magazines such as The Atlantic and Saul Bellow’s little magazine The Noble Savage.
  
  Berlin published six collections of short stories, but most of her work can be found in three later volumes from Black Sparrow Books: Homesick: New and Selected Stories, So Long: Stories 1987-92 and Where I Live Now: Stories 1993-98.
  
  Berlin was never a bestseller, but was widely influential within the literary community. She aspired to Chekhov's objectivity and refusal to judge. She has also

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  Emmanuel Carrère

  Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter, and director. He is the son of Louis Carrère d'Encausse and French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.
  
  Carrère studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (better known as Sciences Po). Much of his writing, both fiction and nonfiction, centers around the primary themes of the interrogation of identity, the development of illusion, and the direction of reality. Several of his books have been made into films; in 2005, he personally directed the film adaptation of his novel La Moustache. He was the president of the jury of the book Inter 2003.
  
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  Ivan Turgenev

  Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Cyrillic: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short-story collection A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) and the novels Rudin (1856), Home of the Gentry (1859), On the Eve (1860), and Fathers and Sons (1862).
  
  These works offer realistic, affectionate portrayals of the Russian peasantry and penetrating studies of the Russian intelligentsia who were attempting to move the country into a new age. His masterpiece, Fathers and Sons, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.
  
  Turgenev was a contemporary with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. While these wrote about church and reli

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  Pere Calders

  Escriptor, periodista i dibuixant. Estudià a l'Escola Superior de Belles Arts. Es donà a conèixer a L'Esquella de la Torratxa (1936), revista que dirigí durant la darrera època amb Avel·lí Artís i Gener.
  El 1936 publicà un primer recull de contes, El primer arlequí, i la novel·la La glòria del doctor Larén (reeditada el 1994). El 1938 fou finalista del premi Crexells amb la novel·la Gaeli i l'home déu (posteriorment perduda i editada el 1986), i escriví la crònica de guerra Unitats de xoc.
  Arran de la guerra civil s'exilià a França, i després, a Mèxic, on residí fins al 1963. Hi fundà, amb Josep Carner i Agustí Bartra, la revista Lletres, redactà Fascicles Literaris (1958-59) i col·laborà en La Revista de Catalunya, La Nostra Revista i Pont B

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  Éric Vuillard

  Born in Lyons in 1968, Éric Vuillard is a French author and film director. His books include Conquistadors (winner of the Ignatius J. Reilly prize 2010), and La Bataille de l'occident and Congo, for both of which he was awarded the 2012 Franz-Hessel prize and the 2013 Valery-Larbaud prize. Sorrow of the Earth is the first of his titles to be translated into English.

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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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  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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  Françoise Sagan

  Born Françoise Quoirez, Sagan grew up in a French Catholic, bourgeois family. She was an independent thinker and avid reader as a young girl, and upon failing her examinations for continuing at the Sorbonne, she became a writer.
  
  She went to her family's home in the south of France and wrote her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse, at age 18. She submitted it to Editions Juillard in January 1954 and it was published that March. Later that year, She won the Prix des Critiques for Bonjour Tristesse.
  
  She chose "Sagan" as her pen name because she liked the sound of it and also liked the reference to the Prince and Princesse de Sagan, 19th century Parisians, who are said to be the basis of some of Marcel Proust's characters.
  
  She was known for her love

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  Dante Alighieri

  Dante Alighieri, or simply Dante (May 14/June 13 1265 – September 13/14, 1321), is one of the greatest poets in the Italian language; with the comic story-teller, Boccaccio, and the poet, Petrarch, he forms the classic trio of Italian authors. Dante Alighieri was born in the city-state Florence in 1265. He first saw the woman, or rather the child, who was to become the poetic love of his life when he was almost nine years old and she was some months younger. In fact, Beatrice married another man, Simone di' Bardi, and died when Dante was 25, so their relationship existed almost entirely in Dante's imagination, but she nonetheless plays an extremely important role in his poetry. Dante attributed all the heavenly virtues to her soul and imagi

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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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  Núria Bendicho Giró

  Núria Bendicho Giró (Barcelona, 1995) és una escriptora catalana. Es va llicenciar en filosofia. El 2020 es va presentar al Premi Anagrama amb un text que no va guanyar, però que el jurat va "recomanar-ne la publicació". El 2021 va publicar finalment Terres mortes, la seva primera novel·la, a Editorial Anagrama, que va ser nominada com a finalista al XXII Premi Llibreter de Literatura catalana i nominada també al Premi Òmnium a la millor novel·la de l'any. L'obra ha sigut descrita com un drama rural extrem, amb aires de Rodoreda, Faulkner, Víctor Català i /o Bernhard. El títol fa referència a Terra baixa, d'Àngel Guimerà.
  
  

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  Regina Rodríguez Sirvent

  Primer fascicle: Un petit poble a les muntanyes. Monges i pregàries matinals. Saltar a goma, pixi i futbol. Amigues eternes. Estratègies fins a la sala de professors. Positius extra. Carrers solitaris i olor de lilars. Sopa de Cabra, Sau, Els Pets, The Police i sense saber-ho Queen. Esquí i bàsquet. Campionats d’Espanya a Sierra Nevada. Els primers Levi’s i Port Aventura. El primer petó després d’un anunci de Baylies. La Llesca, l’Sbarjo, el Clochard i el 32. Festa incondicional, tots i sempre. Transició vital, flotant, sense nord. La universitat.
  
  Segon fascicle: La Vila, Carlsson i xocolata calenta. Una mitja taronja rossa. Carnaval de Palamós. Diaris nocturns, llargues hores confessant-me en silenci, omplint llibretes Miquelrius. Huddersfi

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  Gemma Ruiz Palà

  Gemma Ruiz i Palà (Sabadell, 6 de desembre de 1975) és una periodista i escriptora catalana.
  Com a periodista, ha treballat des de 1997 al servei d'informatius de Televisió de Catalunya i s'ha especialitzat en cròniques culturals dels Telenotícies. Durant sis anys, va fer les cròniques teatrals al programa La nit al dia. Com a escriptora, va publicar la seva primera novel·la, Argelagues, el setembre de 2016. L'obra se centra en la vida de tres dones nascudes a pagès a principis del segle xx que han d'obrir-se camí a la ciutat, treballant en la indústria tèxtil, participant en la Guerra Civil Espanyola des de la rereguarda i arriscant la vida en diversos moments. L'obra resultà un èxit de vendes i, el març de 2017, ja se n'havien fet nou edic

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  Jacint Verdaguer

  aka Jacinto Verdaguer.
  
  Jacint Verdaguer is regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature and a prominent literary figure of the Renaixença, a national revival movement of the late Romantic era. The bishop Josep Torras i Bages, one of the main figures of Catalan nationalism, called him the "Prince of Catalan poets". He was also known as mossèn Cinto Verdaguer, because of his career as a priest.
  
  Verdaguer was born in Folgueroles, a town on the Plain of Vic, in the comarca of Osona. His father was Josep Verdaguer i Ordeix (Tavèrnoles, 1817-Folgueroles, 1876) and his mother was Josepa Santaló i Planes (Folgueroles, 1819–1871). He was the third of eight children, only three of whom survived. In 1856 at the age of 11 he entered the Se

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  Bernat Metge

  Bernat Metge (Barcelona, entre 1340 i 1346 – 1413) fou un escriptor, traductor i primer representant de l'humanisme a les lletres catalanes. És considerat un dels millors prosistes del tombant del segle xiv, introductor de l'estil renaixentista a la literatura catalana, amb una fina intel·ligència, i una gran sornegueria. També fou secretari reial. La seva obra mestra és Lo somni (1399)

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  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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  Francesc Trabal

  Francesc Trabal was born in Sabadell, Spain, in 1899, and passed away in Santiago, Chile, in 1957.

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