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  Irmgard Keun

  Irmgard Keun (1905 – 1982) was a German novelist. She is noted for her portrayals of the life of women in the Weimar Republic as well as the early years of the Nazi Germany era. She was born into an affluent family and was given the autonomy to explore her passions. After her attempts at acting ended at the age of 16, Keun began working as a writer after years of working in Hamburg and Greifswald. Her books were eventually banned by Nazi authorities but gained recognition during the final years of her life.
  
  
  

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  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (French: [nikɔla bwalo depʁeo]; often known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and critic.
  
  Boileau did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, as Blaise Pascal did to reform the prose. He was greatly influenced by Horace.
  
  The surname "Despréaux" was derived from a small property at Crosne near Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. He was the fifteenth child of Gilles Boileau, a clerk in the parlement. Two of his brothers attained some distinction: Gilles Boileau, the author of a translation of Epictetus; and Jacques Boileau, who became a canon of the Sainte-Chapelle, and made valuable contributions to church history. His mother died when he was two years old; and Nicolas Boileau, who had a delicate constitution, s

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  Roberto Innocenti

  Italian illustrator Roberto Innocenti (born 1940) is known for his highly detailed, painterly style and his devotion to realistic representation in such classic works as Cinderella, The Adventures of Pinocchio, A Christmas Carol, and Nutcracker. He is also the illustrator of an original Holocaust tale, Rose Blanche, that has been highly publicized throughout Europe and the United States. Innocenti's illustrations are unmistakable, demonstrating a delicacy of palette as well as a refinement of line, both of which are surprising in light of the fact that Innocenti is completely self-trained in art.

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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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  Jan Kochanowski

  Kochanowski was born at Sycyna, near Radom, Poland. Little is known of his early education. At fourteen, fluent in Latin, he was sent to the Kraków Academy. After graduation in 1547 at age seventeen, he attended the University of Königsberg (Królewiec), in Ducal Prussia, and Padua University in Italy. At Padua, Kochanowski came in contact with the great humanist scholar Francis Robortello. Kochanowski closed his fifteen-year period of studies and travels with a final visit to France, where he met the poet Pierre Ronsard.
  
  In 1559 Kochanowski returned to Poland for good, where he remained active as a humanist and Renaissance poet. He spent the next fifteen years close to the court of King Sigismund II Augustus, serving for a time as royal secr

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  Molière

  Sophisticated comedies of French playwright Molière, pen name of Jean Baptiste Poquelin, include Tartuffe (1664), The Misanthrope (1666), and The Bourgeois Gentleman (1670).
  
  French literary figures, including Molière and Jean de la Fontaine, gathered at Auteuil, a favorite place.
  
  People know and consider Molière, stage of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also an actor of the greatest masters in western literature. People best know l'Ecole des femmes (The School for Wives), l'Avare ou l'École du mensonge (The Miser), and le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid) among dramas of Molière.
  
  From a prosperous family, Molière studied at the Jesuit Clermont college (now lycée Louis-le-Grand) and well suited to begin a life in the

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  Lord Byron

  George Gordon Byron (invariably known as Lord Byron), later Noel, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale FRS was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the English-speaking world and beyond.
  
  Byron's notabilty rests not only on his writings but also on his life, which featured upper-class living, numerous love affairs, debts, and separation. He was notably described by Lady Caroline Lamb as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know". Byron served as

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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.
  
  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.
  
  It is considered to be one of the first works of alternative history.

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  Tadeusz Borowski

  Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951) - prozaik, poeta, publicysta. Urodził się w Żytomierzu w Ukrainie, zmarł śmiercią samobójczą w Warszawie. Studiował polonistykę na podziemnym Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, brał aktywny udział w podziemnym życiu kulturalnym w czasie wojny. W 1943 roku został aresztowany, trafił do obozu koncentracyjnego w Oświęcimiu, następnie przetransportowano go między innymi do Dachau. W 1946 roku powrócił do kraju. Po 1948 roku stał się zwolennikiem partii komunistycznej, a swoją twórczość podporządkował założeniom realizmu socjalistycznego. Zadebiutował w 1942 roku cyklem wierszy Gdziekolwiek ziemia. W 1948 roku opublikował dwa tomy opowiadań - Pożegnanie z Marią i Kamienny świat - które spotkały się z szerokim odzewem.

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  Icchokas Meras

  Meras was born in 1934 in Kelmė, a town in northwestern Lithuania, which contained one of the country's oldest Jewish communities. His family perished during the fateful and tragic summer of 1941 when the Nazis undertook the liquidation of Lithuania's Jews, but young Icchokas escaped the Holocaust. "On July 28, 1941, I was being taken to a ditch to be shot," he wrote later. "Due to chance, they decided to return some of the children. Due to another chance, I fell in with people who valued the life of a seven-year old child."
  
  Hidden and adopted by a Lithuanian peasant family, Meras survived the war. In the violent and troubled post-war years Meras attended secondary school and soon revealed an inclination towards writing when he came to work

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  Adam Mickiewicz

  To a Pole, the name Adam Mickiewicz is emblematic of Polishness and greatness. What Homer is to the Greeks, or Shakespeare to the English, Mickiewicz is to the Poles. He is a cultural icon, a name inextricably connected with Polish literature and history, and one mentioned with pride. Mickiewicz stands out in the consciousness of Poles both as a man of letters and a political leader.
  
  Despite his unquestionable status and fame, however, much of Mickiewicz's biography is shrouded in mystery. Even the generally accepted date of his birth, December 24. 1798, is uncertain, since it hasn't been determined whether it refers to the Gregorian or the Julian calendar. Nor has it been established conclusively whether Mickiewicz was born in Nowogrodek or

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  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust , published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scientific research in various fields, notably botany, and held several governmental positions.
  
  George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Works span the fields of literature, theology, and humanism.
  People laud this magnum opus as one of the peaks of world literature. Other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther .
  
  With this key figure of German literature, th

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  Bolesław Prus

  Bolesław Prus (pronounced:[bɔ'lεswaf 'prus]; Hrubieszów, August 20, 1847 – May 19, 1912, Warsaw), whose actual name was Aleksander Głowacki, was a Polish journalist and novelist who is known especially for his novels The Doll and Pharaoh. He was the leading representative of realism in 19th-century Polish literature and remains a distinctive voice in world literature. Głowacki took the pen name "Prus" from the name of his family coat-of-arms.
  
  An indelible mark was left on Prus by his experiences as a 15-year-old soldier in the Polish 1863 Uprising against Imperial Russia, in which he suffered severe injuries and imprisonment.
  
  In 1872 at age 25, in Warsaw, Prus settled into a distinguished 40-year journalistic career. As a sideline, to augment

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  Gabriela Zapolska

  Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska, known as Gabriela Zapolska, was a Polish novelist, playwright, naturalist writer, feuilletonist, theatre critic and stage actress. Zapolska wrote 41 plays, 23 novels, 177 short stories, 252 works of journalism, one film script, and over 1,500 letters. She received most recognition for her socio-satirical comedies. [wikipedia]
  
  
  Gabriela Zapolska, właśc. Maria Gabriela Janowska z domu Piotrowska herbu Korwin, primo voto Śnieżko-Błocka (ur. 30 marca 1857 w Podhajcach, zm. 17 grudnia 1921 we Lwowie) – polska aktorka, dramatopisarka, powieściopisarka i publicystka.
  
  Przedstawicielka polskiego naturalizmu, wykpiwała moralną obłudę mieszczaństwa; pisała komedie satyryczne, dramaty i powieści. [wikipedia]

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  Zygmunt Krasiński

  Tradition ranks Napoleon Stanisław Adam Ludwig Zygmunt Krasiński, a Polish count, with Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki as one of three national bards of great Romantic poets, who influenced national consciousness during the period of political bondage of Poland.
  
  A mother bore Krasiński, a son, to Wincenty Krasiński, a general and count of the aristocratic family. He studied law at Warsaw University and in Geneva, where he met Adam Mickiewicz.
  
  Krasiński compared as more sociopolitical conservative than the other two poets. He published much of his work anonymously.
  
  People best know him for his philosophical messianist ideas. His drama, Nie-boska Komedia ( The Un-Divine Comedy , 1835), portrays the tragedy of a new order of Communism and

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  Jan Parandowski

  Jan Parandowski was a Polish writer, essayist, and translator. Best known for his works relating to classical antiquity, he was also the president of the Polish PEN Club between 1933 and 1978, with a break during World War II.

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  Eliza Orzeszkowa

  Eliza Orzeszkowa was a Polish novelist and a leading writer of the Positivism movement during foreign Partitions of Poland. In 1905, together with Henryk Sienkiewicz she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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  Maria Konopnicka

  Również:
  Marya Konopnicka
  Jan Sawa (Pen Name)
  
  Poetka, publicystka, nowelistka, tłumaczka. Zajmowała się krytyką literacką. Pisała liryki stylizowane na ludowe i realistyczne obrazki (W piwnicznej izbie). Wydawała cykle nowel (Moi znajomi, Nowele, Na drodze). W otoczeniu ośmiorga swoich dzieci tworzyła bajki (Na jagody). Jako poetka, inspiracji szukała w naturze (Zimowy poranek). Swoje wiersze publikowała głównie w prasie. Wiersz patriotyczny Rota konkurował z Mazurkiem Dąbrowskiego o miano hymnu Polski. Wiele jej utworów powstało podczas podróży po Europie (Italia). Ostatnie lata życia poświęciła poematowi Pan Balcer w Brazylii.

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  Juliusz Słowacki

  Juliusz Słowacki ['juljuʂ swɔ'vatski] (4 September 1809 in Kremenets, Volhynia, Russian Empire now in Ukraine – 3 April 1849 in Paris) was a noted Polish Romantic poet, considered to be one of the "Three Bards" of Polish literature. His works often feature elements of Slavic pagan traditions, mysticism, and Orientalism.
  
  
  Life and work
  
  Influenced largely by Byron and Shakespeare, Słowacki's early work was often historical in nature, combining exotic locales (as in Arab) and tragedy (as in Maria Stuart). His work took on a more nationalist tone following the failed November Insurrection of 1830 - 1831. Like many of his countrymen, he decided to emigrate to France as a political refugee. Ironically, the first collections of poems he produced in

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  Stanisław Wyspiański

  Polish playwright, painter, poet, interior and furniture designer.

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  Stefan Żeromski

  Stefan Żeromski ( [ˈstɛfan ʐɛˈrɔmski] Strawczyn near Kielce, October 14, 1864 – November 20, 1925, Warsaw) was a Polish novelist and dramatist. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature". He also wrote under the pen names: Maurycy Zych, Józef Katerla and Stefan Iksmoreż.
  
  In 1892–96 Żeromski worked as a librarian—during the last two years, as the librarian—at the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
  
  In recognition of his literary achievements, he was granted the privilege of using an apartment at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. In 1924 he was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in literature.[2]
  
  His novel were filmed by Walerian Borowczyk - Dzieje grzechu (A Story of Sin), Andrzej Wajda - Popioły (The Ashes), Filip Bajon - Przedw

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  Juozas Grušas

  Juozas Grušas (1901 m. lapkričio 29 d. Žadžiūnuose, Šiaulių valsčius – 1986 m. gegužės 21 d. Kaune) – Lietuvos dramaturgas, prozininkas, vertėjas, eseistas, kultūros veikėjas.
  
  Nuo 1925 m. skelbė periodinėje spaudoje apsakymus, feljetonus. Pirmasis apsakymas „Lelijos sapnas“ pasirodė jaunimo žurnale „Ateitis“ (1926 m., Nr. 4). Pasirašė slapyvardžiu Juozas Kriaušė. [4] Keletą mėnesių redagavo katalikų jaunimo žurnalą „Pavasaris“. Čia spausdino apsakymus, pasirašydamas tuo pačiu slapyvardžiu: Juozas Kriaušė – tai sulietuvintas Grušas. Feljetonus pasirašydavo Liongino Padanginės pseudonimu. Pirmasis apsakymų rinkinys „Ponia Bertulienė“ išleistas 1928 m., o didžiausią populiarumą iš prozos darbų pelnė romanas „Karjeristai“ (1935 m.).
  
  Nuo XX a. š

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  Władysław Stanisław Reymont

  Polski pisarz, prozaik i nowelista, jeden z głównych przedstawicieli realizmu z elementami naturalizmu w prozie Młodej Polski. Niewielką część jego spuścizny stanowią wiersze. Laureat Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury za czterotomową „epopeję chłopską” Chłopi. Jeden z najwybitniejszych i najważniejszych pisarzy w dziejach literatury polskiej.
  
  Władysław Stanisław Reymont (7 May 1867 – 5 December 1925) was a Polish novelist and the laureate of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi (The Peasants).
  
  Born into an impoverished noble family, Reymont was educated to become a master tailor, but instead worked as a gateman at a railway station and then as an actor in a troupe. His inten

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  Andreas Capellanus

  Andreas Capellanus (Capellanus meaning "chaplain"), also known as Andrew the Chaplain, and occasionally by a French translation of his name, André le Chapelain, was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as De amore ("About Love"), and often known in English, somewhat misleadingly, as The Art of Courtly Love, though its realistic, somewhat cynical tone suggests that it is in some measure an antidote to courtly love. Little is known of Andreas Capellanus's life, but he is presumed to have been a courtier of Marie de Champagne, and probably of French origin.
  
  De Amore was written at the request of Marie de Champagne, daughter of King Louis VII of France and of Eleanor of Aquitaine. In it, the author informs a young pupil, Walter,

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  James A.W. Heffernan

  Dr. James Heffernan is Emeritus Professor of English at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH).

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  Jonas Mekas

  Jonas Mekas is a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet and artist who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema." His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals world-wide.
  
  In 1944, Mekas left Lithuania because of war. En route, his train was stopped in Germany and he and his brother, Adolfas Mekas (1925–2011), were imprisoned in a labor camp in Elmshorn, a suburb of Hamburg, for eight months. The brothers escaped and were detained near the Danish border where they hid on a farm for two months until the end of the war. After the war, Mekas lived in displaced person camps in Wiesbaden and Kassel. From 1946 to 1948, he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz and at the end of 1949, he emigrated with his brot

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  Carole Levin

  Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author of Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture and The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power.

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  Robert de Boron

  Robert de Boron (also spelled in the manuscripts "Bouron", "Beron") was a French poet of the late 12th and early 13th centuries who is most notable as the author of the poems Joseph d'Arimathe and Merlin. Though little is known about him outside of the poems he allegedly wrote, his works and their subsequent prose redactions impacted later incarnations of the Arthurian legend and its prose cycles, particularly due to his Christian backstory for the Holy Grail, originally an element of Chretien de Troyes's famously-unfinished Perceval.

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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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  Narcís Oller

  Narcís Oller (Valls, 1846 - Barcelona, 1930). Primer gran novel·lista català de la Renaixença, és considerat el creador de la novel·la catalana moderna. Ocupa un lloc destacat en el marc global de la novel·la realista gràcies a obres com La papallona (1882), L'Escanyapobres (1884), Vilaniu (1885), La febre d'or (1890-1892), La bogeria (1899) o Pilar Prim (1906). De formació romàntica, es va anar decantant cap a l'opció estètica naturalista propera a Émile Zola. Va aconseguir, no obstant, un estil propi, que el mateix Zola en una carta-pròleg a la traducció francesa de La papallona va especificar. Narcís Oller va incorporar temes i una visió del món inèdits en la literatura catalana vuitcentista.

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  Leonard J. Pełka

  Doktor nauk humanistycznych, nauczyciel akademicki, członek Polskiego Towarzystwa Religioznawczego, Polskiego Towarzystwa Ludoznawczego i Polskiego Towarzystwa Uniwersalistycznego. Współpracował z pismami "Studia religioznawcze", "Nomos. Kwartalnik religioznawczy", "Lud", "Parerga. Międzynarodowe studia filozoficzne" i "Res Humana".
  
  Był uczniem Bohdana Baranowskiego. Doktorat uzyskał w 1977 r. na Uniwersytecie Łódzkim broniąc pracę pt. Demonologia ludowa regionu lubelsko-rzeszowskiego (studium etnologiczno-historyczne).

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  Ksaver Šandor Gjalski

  Ksaver Šandor Gjalski, or Ljubomil Tito Babić (26 October 1854 – 6 February 1935) was a Croatian writer and civil servant.
  
  His real name was Ljubomil Babić and he was born in the Gredice castle near Klanjec and Zabok in Hrvatsko Zagorje, into a minor aristocratic family. He finished high school in Varaždin and earned law degrees in Zagreb and Vienna. He was also involved in politics. In 1906 he got elected into the Croatian Parliament. 1917 through 1918 he held the post of mayor of the Zagreb county.
  
  He wrote novels, but his best known work is Pod starim krovovima (Under Old Roofs), a collection of short stories in which he described the economic decline of the Croatian aristocracy. Gjalski managed to combine realism and poetry in his work be

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  Otto Rahn

  Otto Wilhelm Rahn was a German medievalist and a Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant) of the SS.
  From an early age, he became interested in the legends of Parsifal, Holy Grail, Lohengrin, and the Nibelungenlied. While attending the University of Giessen he was inspired by his professor, the Baron von Gall, to study the Albigensian (Catharism) movement, and the massacre that occurred at Montségur.
  In 1931 he traveled to the Pyrenees region of southern France where he conducted most of his research. Aided by the French mystic and historian Antonin Gadal, Rahn argued that there was a direct link between Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Parzival and the Cathar Grail mystery. He believed that the Cathars held the answer to this sacred mystery and that the k

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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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