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  • L'acte darrer

    A poem by Joan Vinyoli, read by Sílvia Bel and illustrated by Marta Bellvehí. In Poesia …

  • Viquilletra

    The Viquilletra is a tematic wiki space to share the readings of the students...

  • Podries

    By Joana Raspall, in Poesia Dibuixada.

  • Pistes

    By Mireia Calafell, in Poesia Dibuixada.

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    The author recites three poems

    The author recites three poems

  • Rosselló-Pòrcel in Música de poetes

    Rosselló-Pòrcel in Música de poetes

    A selection of Rosselló-Pòrcel’s poems set to music: “A Mallorca, durant la guerra civil” …

  • Cançó

    Lecture of Enric Casasses, edited by the Ramon Llull Institute and published in the …

  • La poesia

    Lecture of Enric Casasses, edited by the Ramon Llull Institute and published in the …

  • La senyora i el senyor

    Lecture of Enric Casasses, edited by the Ramon Llull Institute and published in the …

  • La casa entre les flors

    Lecture of Enric Casasses, edited by the Ramon Llull Institute and published in the …

  • Les cases del meu carrer

    Lecture of Enric Casasses, edited by the Ramon Llull Institute and published in the …

  • Sextina

    Lecture of Enric Casasses, edited by the Ramon Llull Institute and published in the …

  • Europa

    Lecture of Enric Casasses, edited by the Ramon Llull Institute and published in the …

  • Cançó (Dolor terrible)

    Lecture of Enric Casasses, edited by the Ramon Llull Institute and published in the …

  • La manera més salvatge

    Lecture of Enric Casasses, edited by the Ramon Llull Institute and published in the …

  • En la nit artificial

    Lecture of Enric Casasses, edited by the Ramon Llull Institute and published in the …

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    Ferran Torrent

    So let's start with the philosophical question of who I am. I am me and my circumstance. …

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    Maria Antònia Oliver

    Born in Manacor in 1946, resident in Barcelona since 1969, and married to the writer …

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    Carles Duarte

    The little I know has plenty to do with what I've read and what I've written. …

  • Poetry As Drawing

    Driven to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Lletra, POESIA DIBUIXADA is a literary …

  • 'The eyes in the rear-view mirror'

    Joan Margarit discusses his poem 'The eyes in the rear-view mirror' with Anna Crowe, the …

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    Isabel-Clara Simó

    A critic once said I was an exponent of “pure fiction”. He couldn’t have put it better. …

  • La mort i la primavera

    La mort i la primavera [Death in Spring] (1986)

    “I’m quite intrigued by everything I’ve been told about La mort i la primavera so I’m …

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    Albert Sánchez Piñol

    Albert Sánchez Piñol is an anthropologist who specializes in Africa. His first novel, …

  • Toni Sala reads The Boys (part 2)

    With music by Tish Hinojosa. In Malvern Books bookstore, Austin (2016).

  • At Toronto International Festival of Authors

    Toni Sala presents The Boys at IFOA 2015.

  • 2015 LletrA Prize

    The Fundació Prudenci Bertrana (Prudenci Bertrana Foundation) and the Open University of …

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    Jordi Puntí

    The main feature of the character of Jordi Puntí (Manlleu, 1967) is restlessness. He is …

  • Francesc Serés

    Years ago, St Michael's Fair in Lleida marked the change of the annual cycle. September …

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    Carme Riera

    There is an image which, with obsessive clarity, always superimposes itself on the …

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    Quim Monzó

    Quim Monzó was born in Barcelona in 1952. Among other things, he has been a graphic …

  • Montserrat Roig

    Barcelona, 1946-1991. Fiction writer and journalist. Daughter of the writer Tomàs Roig i …

  • Mercè Rodoreda

    The works of Mercè Rodoreda (Barcelona 1908 - Romanyà de la Selva, 1983) traverse the …

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    Mecanoscrit del segon origen (1974)

    Between 1973 and 1979 Manuel de Pedrolo wrote what might be called the nucleus of his …

  • About Improvisaciones de una ardilla

    A short documentary by Virginia García del Pino in which the philosopher Josep Maria …

  • Uncertain glory

    Uncertain glory

    The Enlgish version of the novel was presented by Paul Preston and Peter Bush in the …

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    The author recites three poems.

    Maria-Mercè Marçal recites three poems.

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    Marta Orriols

    Marta Orriols (Sabadell, 1975) is an art historian by training. She has also studied scriptwriting at the Bande à Part film school, and creative...

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    Silvana Vogt

    Silvana Vogt (Morteros, Argentina, 1969) studied Philosophy and worked as a radio journalist before emigrating to Catalonia in 2002. In Barcelona...

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    Alicia Kopf

    Imma Ávalos (Girona, 1982), who uses the pseudonym Alicia Kopf, has degrees in Fine Arts and in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature. In her work...

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    Jordi Lara

    Jordi Lara (Vic, 1968) is a writer and visual artist. Edicions de 1984 has published his books Papallones i roelles (Butterflies and...

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    Gemma Ruiz

    Gemma Ruiz (Sabadell, 1975) is a journalist specialising in culture in the Information Services of Televisió de Catalunya (Catalan Television). Her...

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    El mar (1958)

    A novel by Blai Bonet, published in 1958.Set in a tuberculosis sanatorium, this first …

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    Carles Rebassa

    Carles Rebassa (Palma, 1977) has published the poetry collections Requiescat in pace (with Pere Perelló), Poema B (Poem B)...

  • Bartomeu Rosselló-Pòrcel

    His primary education was in a religious school after which he went to the Institute …

  • Ways of (not) coming home

    Booktrailer (2011).

  • Cant espiritual

    Lecture of Carles Rebassa, edited by the Ramon Llull Institute and published in the …

  • La lírica

    Lecture of Carles Rebassa, edited by the Ramon Llull Institute and published in the …

  • Tu

    Lecture of Carles Rebassa, edited by the Ramon Llull Institute and published in the …

  • Els polítics

    Lecture of Carles Rebassa, edited by the Ramon Llull Institute and published in the …

  • Arnau

    Lecture of Carles Rebassa, edited by the Ramon Llull Institute and published in the …

  • Interview in Poetàrium

    By Llull.tv.

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    Ramon Solsona

    Born in Barcelona in 1950, he is a novelist, poet and scriptwriter. His work reflects …

  • Miquel Bezares

    It can’t be wholly coincidental that the last two books of poems by Miquel Bezares (Llucmajor, 1968) should include the word vers (verse) in their titles...

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    Miquel Bauçà

    Miquel Bauçà (1940-2005), poet and narrative writer, was perhaps the most radical stylist, iconoclast and visionary in Catalan literature: eschewing publicity, insulting his peers, and writing unclassifiable books. Today he is seen as a cult figure and his works as contemporary classics.

  • Els núvols

    By Màrius Torres, in Poesia Dibuixada.

  • Jo em donaria a qui em volgués

    By Josep Palau i Fabre, in Poesia Dibuixada.

  • Vuitanta-sis contes

    "Monzó's stories are machines that exude interest and lucidity and are fed by an initial …

  • Pa negre

    I must admit that it is especially gratifying for me to be able to speak in praise of Emili Teixidor, author of Pa negre (Black Bread), which...

  • La plaça del Diamant (1962)

    This is Mercè Rodoreda’s most universal work. It has been ...

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    Lolita Bosch

    I like telling stories and, when you write, what you try to do is get as close as …

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    Joan-Lluís Lluís

    Joan-Lluís Lluís is the author of five novels and the brief collection of essays entitled …

  • Joan Oliver (Pere Quart)

    Joan Oliver is a writer who is difficult to place from the generational standpoint. He …

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    Guillem Frontera

    Els carnissers [The Butchers] reveals a novelist that has already developed the tools to turn...

  • Portada de l'edició a La butxaca

    Vida privada (1932)

    The central theme of the novel is the financial and moral decline of the Lloberola family, one of the...

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    Pep Puig

    Writing is rhythm. In the opening paragraphs you have to hit on that rhythm. A style that …

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    Emili Rosales

    [In La ciutat invisible -The Invisible City] Rosales has succeeded in drip-feeding the information, in...

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    Albert Forns

    I have never put limits on fiction. And surprisingly so, because even though we may have overcome all the...

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    Bel Olid

    Bel Olid is skilful in her approach to the genre of storytelling, what she describes as her "natural habitat"...

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    Vicenç Pagès Jordà

    I’m asked to tell you who I am and why I write, and I don’t like these two questions. …

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    Margarita Ballester

    I was born in 1942 in Barcelona and have been living in Menorca for ten years now. In …

  • Salm i paràbola de la memòria pròdiga

    By Maria Cabrera, in Poesia Dibuixada.

  • Una mare planxa una camisa del seu fill per a una entrevista de feina

    By David Jou, in Poesia Dibuixada.

  • L'artefacte del límit

    By Esteve Plantada, in Poesia Dibuixada.

  • Professor Bonaventura Bassegoda

    By Joan Margarit, in Poesia Dibuixada.

  • Andreu Martín

    “Writing in genre means playing with or, in other words, accepting a kind of literature …

  • Vicent Andrés Estellés

    The poetic production of Estellés is prolific and original. His importance derives from -among other elements- his having ...

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    Najat El Hachmi

    I wanted to be a writer... and a chemist. When I was a little girl, aged about ten or eleven, I really liked the Sherlock Holmes stories and, well, since the...

  • Salvador Dali: A Soft Self Portrait

    Salvador Dali: A Soft Self Portrait

    This portrait of the surrealist artist Salvador Dali details the dreamlike inspiration …

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    Lluïsa Cunillé

    In the 22 (twenty-two!) plays written by Lluïsa Cunillé between 1991 and the time of …

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    Amadeu Cuito

    I'm a good reader or at least one that reads quite a lot. And, as happens with a lot of …

  • © Laura Zorrilla

    Flavia Company

    Flavia Company, born in Buenos Aires in 1963 and a graduate in Hispanic languages and literature, is a prolific writer in Spanish and Catalan language and translator of many genres. Her writing has been...

  • Nadal segons Giotto

    Lecture of Narcís Comadira, edited by the Ramon Llull Institute and published in the …

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    The author recites three poems.

    Narcís Comadira recites three poems.

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    Narcís Comadira

    Narcís Comadira studied Humanities and Philosophy at the Seminary of his home city of Girona and at the Monastery of Montserrat, after which he began...

  • Maria Aurèlia Capmany

    Educated in some years of "normality" and imbued with republican ideas, Maria Aurèlia …

  • Neus Canyelles

    My paternal grandfather, whom I didn’t know because he died a month before I was born, …

  • Pere Calders

    Born in Barcelona in 1912, Pere Calders is another example of a Catalan author wrenched onto unforeseen pathways by the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. At the end of that...

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    Jaume Cabré

    Jaume Cabré (Barcelona 1947) is one of most widely read writers of contemporary Catalan literature. He is the author of...

  • Joan Brossa

    A man totally given over to art and to artistic experimentation -that was Brossa's paradigm. He took it upon himself to seek the limits of artistic expression, and to ...

  • Blai Bonet

    Santanyí, 1926-1997. Poet and novelist. In 1939 he entered the Palma Seminary, where he …

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    Perejaume

    Benet Martorell was the first person to put a paintbrush between Perejaume’s fingers. At …

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    Joan-Daniel Bezsonoff

    It might well be that autobiography is an impossible genre, compassionately excused by …

  • Agustí Bartra

    [...] It might also be deduced from the aforementioned stylistic coincidences that Bartra …

  • Avel·lí Artís-Gener, Tísner

    Avel·lí Artís-Gener, Tísner

    I've rejected the generic title that has the relative pronoun who as its starting point …

  • Marià Villangómez

    My name is Marià Villangómez Llobet and I was born in the town of Eivissa on 10 January …

  • Antoni Vidal Ferrando

    Poetry isn't meant to be explained. Every poem says what it says and is the result of a not always known or predictable inner process. Besides the deliberate reasons that impel one to give a particular kind...

  • Jacint Verdaguer

    Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló was born in Folgueroles (in the Osona region of Catalonia) on 17 May 1845. His parents were modest but relatively cultured country people. At the age of ten he entered the Vic Seminary, where he took...

  • Frederic Soler, "Pitarra"

    The figure of Frederic Soler i Hubert, born in Barcelona on 9 October 1839, cannot be seen separately from a whole generation in the theatre that was born, to put it in literary terms, in the early 1860s and subsequently...

  • Jean Serra

    The way I see it, the poet is not necessarily an isolated being in an ivory tower. In any case, as Marià Villangómez has written, his or her isolation "is for a more intimate union". The profession is at once...

  • Marc Pastor

    Marc Pastor (Barcelona, 1977) holds a degree in Criminology and Criminal Policy, works for the Catalan police force’s scientific squad and is the author of three novels.

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    Miquel de Palol

    Miquel de Palol (Barcelona, 1953). Poet and fiction writer. He studied architecture and made his literary debut with a book of poems...

  • Eugeni d'Ors (Xènius)

    With a turn-of-the-century cultural education, Eugeni d'Ors i Rovira (Barcelona, 1881 – Vilanova i la Geltrú, 1954) is an early and exemplary case of the professionalisation of the Catalan intellectual as a writer and cultural organiser.