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  Auguste Rodin

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  Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past. He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition, although he was never accepted into Paris's foremost school of art. Sculpturally, he possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, deeply pocketed surface in clay.
  
  Many of Rodin's most notable sculptures were roundly criticized during his lifetime. They clashed with the p

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  Primo Levi

  Primo Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor whose literary work has had a profound impact on how the world understands the Holocaust and its aftermath. Born in Turin in 1919, he studied chemistry at the University of Turin and graduated in 1941. During World War II, Levi joined the Italian resistance, but was captured by Fascist forces in 1943. Because he was Jewish, he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where he endured ten harrowing months before being liberated by the Red army.
  
  After the war, Levi returned to Turin and resumed work as a chemist, but also began writing about his experiences. His first book, If This Is a Man (published in the U.S. as Survival in Auschwitz), is widely regar

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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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  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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  James Salter

  James Salter (1925 - 2015) was a novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. Salter grew up in New York City and was a career officer and Air Force pilot until his mid-thirties, when the success of his first novel (The Hunters, 1957) led to a fulltime writing career. Salter’s potent, lyrical prose earned him acclaim from critics, readers, and fellow novelists. His novel A Sport and a Pastime (1967) was hailed by the New York Times as “nearly perfect as any American fiction.”

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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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  Yukio Mishima

  Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 and he established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, the Sea of Fertility tetralogy—which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)—is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth-century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of forty-five and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima

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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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  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.
  
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  Ramona, adéu! (1972)
  El temps de les cireres (1977)
  L'hora violeta (1980)
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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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.
  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

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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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  Vicent Baydal

  Vicent Baydal i Sala (València, 6 de novembre de 1979) és un historiador valencià, i un dels cronistes de la Ciutat de València.

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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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  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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  Marina Porras Martí

  Marina Porras Martí (Rubí, 1991) és una crítica literària, llibretera catalana i professora associada del departament d'Humanitats de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Es va graduar en història de l'art i en filologia catalana, i va completar els seus estudis amb un màster en teoria de la literatura i literatura comparada. Forma part del grup de recerca Literatura Comparada en l'Espai intel·lectual Europeu de la Universitat de Barcelona, com a investigadora en formació. Treballa en una tesi sobre els assaigs de Gabriel Ferrater. També es dedica al periodisme cultural, col·laborant amb diversos mitjans (Ara, El Nacional, RAC1, Catalunya Ràdio, Serra d'Or, Revista de Catalunya, El Temps o El Tribú).
  
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  Anna Pazos

  Anna Pazos (Barcelona, 1991) és una escriptora, periodista i documentalista catalana. Ha escrit articles per a diversos mitjans de comunicació com ara Núvol, Vice, The Jerusalem Post, El País, La Vanguardia i Le Monde Diplomatique i d'ençà del 2019 produeix documentals per a la BBC. També és coautora del podcast Les golfes amb Júlia Bacardit.

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  Uriol Gilibets Barbens

  Uriol Gilibets Barbens (Solsona, 1991) ha escrit contes infantils per a la col·lecció «Els Petits Tigres» de Tigre de Paper, però també ha escrit contes per a La Directa o la revista Branca. Participa en molts guions del Super3 (El Betapodcast, Conde&Fonde, Efecte Wow…), però també n’escriu per el programa El Foraster. Havia fet preguntes al programa Atrapa’m si pots, però no li sortien gaire bé. Va crear, escriure i dirigir Una història de la Literatura de TV3, programa de culte que ningú va entendre i que va fer emprenyar la intel·liguèntsia del país. Dirigeix el podcast Llegir.

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  Vicent Baydal

  Vicent Baydal i Sala (València, 6 de novembre de 1979) és un historiador valencià, i un dels cronistes de la Ciutat de València.

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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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