List of Catalan-language writers
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This is an alphabetically sorted list of writers in the Catalan language
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Catalan language
Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
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- Xavier Benguerel
- Prudenci BertranaPrudenci BertranaPrudenci Bertrana i Comte was an important modernist writer in Catalan. During his youth, he studied at Girona; some years after he went to Barcelona to study an industrial engineering course, city in which he definitely instatled on 1911, where he managed known magazines as L'Esquella de la...
- Blai Bonet
- Carles Bosch de la Trinxeria
- Joan BrossaJoan BrossaJoan Brossa i Cuervo Joan Brossa i Cuervo Joan Brossa i Cuervo (Barcelona, Catalonia,(1919–1998) was a Catalan poet in the Catalan language, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist. He was one of the founders of both the group and the publication known as Dau-al-Set (1948) and one of the...
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- Pere CaldersPere CaldersPere Calders i Rossinyol was a Catalan writer and cartoonist.- Biography :He became known at the beginning of the 1930's for his drawings, articles and stories which were published in newspapers and magazines...
- Josep CarnerJosep CarnerJosep Carner i Puig-Oriol , was a Catalan poet, journalist, playwright and translator. He was also known as the Prince of Catalan Poets.-Biography:...
- Víctor Català
- Jordi CasanovasJordi CasanovasJordi Casanovas Güell is a Catalan playwright.-Produced Plays:*Gebre. Vilafranca del Penedès: SalaTrinitaris, 2003 Also performed in *"Mostra de Teatre de Barcelona" 2004...
- Isabel-Clara SimóIsabel-Clara SimóIsabel-Clara Simó i Monllor is a Valencian journalist and writer.She is considered one of the most important writers in the Catalan language. She has been awarded several prizes, including the Premi Sant Jordi in 1993. As a journalist, she was the director of Canigó magazine and has a daily column...
- Miquel Costa i Llobera
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- Francesc EiximenisFrancesc EiximenisFrancesc Eiximenis was a Franciscan Catalan writer that lived in the XIVth century Crown of Aragon. He was possibly one of the medieval Catalan writers that had more success, since his works were widely read, copied, published and translated. Therefore, it can be said tat both in the literary and...
- Joan Eiximeno
- Salvador EspriuSalvador EspriuSalvador Espriu i Castelló was a Catalan poet writing in the Catalan language.-Biography:Espriu was born in Santa Coloma de Farners, Catalonia. He was the son of an attorney. His childhood was divided between his home town, Barcelona, and Arenys de Mar, a village on the Maresme coast...
- Vicent Andrés Estellés
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- Gabriel FerraterGabriel FerraterGabriel Ferrater i Soler was an author, translator and scholar of linguistics who wrote in the Catalan language. His poetical work is one of the most important among the authors of post-war Catalonia and he continues to exert a great deal of influence over authors nowadays...
- Josep Vicenç FoixJosep Vicenç FoixJosep Vicenç Foix i Mas was a Catalan poet, writer, and essayist. He usually signed his work by using the abbreviation J.V. Foix.- Biography :...
- Josep Maria Folch i Torres
- Francesc FontanellaFrancesc FontanellaFrancesc Fontanella was a Catalan poet, dramatist, and priest.He studied law and was granted a degree in Civil and Canon law in 1641. Until 1652 he lived a courtesan life in Barcelona and began writing love poetry and wrote his two dramatic works: Tragicomèdia d'Amor, Firmesa i Porfia and Lo...
- Jaume Fuster
- Joan FusterJoan FusterJoan Fuster i Ortells was a Valencian writer, who published mostly in Catalan.- Life and works :He was born in the village of Sueca near Valencia, Spain, in a relatively prosperous middle class family. Both his parents were pious Roman Catholics and Carlists. His father was a renowned local...
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- Martí Joan de GalbaMartí Joan de GalbaMartí Joan de Galba was co-author of the famous Valencian epic Tirant lo Blanc, which he helped finish during and after the death of his friend, the main author of the work, Joanot Martorell. David H...
- Jordi GalceranJordi GalceranJordi Galceran Ferrer is a Catalan playwright, screenwriter and translator, known internationally for his play El mètode Grönholm...
- Tomàs GarcésTomàs GarcésTomàs Garcés i Miravet was a Catalan poet and lawyer.Garcés was born in Barcelona. He studied law, philosophy and literature in the University of Barcelona....
- GazielGazielAgustí Calvet Pascual , known as Gaziel , was a Catalan Spanish journalist, writer and publisher.-Before the Spanish Civil War:...
- Martí Genís i Aguilar
- Adrià GualAdriá GualAdrià Gual i Queralt was a Catalan playwright and theatre businessman, founder of the Escola Catalana d'Art Dramàtic and a pioneer of cinema in Barcelona.-Theater:*Misteri de dolor*Donzell qui cerca muller*L'emigrant...
- Àngel GuimeràÀngel GuimeràÀngel Guimerà i Jorge was a Spanish Canarian writer, born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, to a Catalan father and a Canary islander mother...
- Francesc Vicent GarciaFrancesc Vicent GarciaFrancesc Vicent Garcia i Torres was an early modern Catalan poet known by the pseudonym of the Vallfogona Rector. He was born in Tortosa in the Baix Ebre comarca around 1582 and died in Vallfogona de Riucorb in 1623...
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- Joan MaragallJoan MaragallJoan Maragall i Gorina was a Catalan poet, journalist and translator, the foremost member of the modernisme movement in literature.-Life:...
- Ausiàs MarchAusiàs MarchAusiàs March was a Valencian poet who was born in Gandia towards the end of the 14th century. He was the son of Pere March, nephew of Jaume March II, and cousin of Arnau March....
- Joan Margarit
- Miquel Martí i PolMiquel Martí i PolMiquel Martí i Pol was one of the most popular poets in Catalan in the 20th century.Martí i Pol was of humble origin and had to quit studying at 14 years, to start working at a factory. Nevertheless, he started publishing poetry in 1954. In 1970 he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis...
- Joanot MartorellJoanot MartorellJoanot Martorell was a Valencian knight and the author of the novel Tirant lo Blanch, which is written in Valencian...
- Bernat MetgeBernat MetgeBernat Metge was a Catalan humanist, best known as the author of Lo Somni .He held a position at the court of Joan I of Aragon, and, following some troubles, once more served Martí of Aragon....
- Gabriel MògerGabriel MógerGabriel Móger or Mòger was a Majorcan painter, sculptor, and poet. He was employed primarily for work on retables and altarpieces by the churches of Majorca. Though Móger's active painting career can be dated to 1426–38 on the basis of surviving documents, his poetic encounter took place...
- Terenci MoixTerenci MoixTerenci Moix was a Spanish Catalan writer who wrote in Spanish and in Catalan. He is also the brother of poet/novelist Anna Maria Moix....
- Jesús MoncadaJesús MoncadaJesús Moncada i Estruga , 1941 - Barcelona , June 13, 2005) was an Aragonese writer in Catalan....
- Quim MonzóQuim Monzóthumb|Quim MonzóQuim Monzó , is a contemporary Catalan writer of novels, short stories and discursive prose, mostly in Catalan. In the early 1970s, Monzó reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Northern Ireland and East Africa for the Barcelona newspaper Tele/eXprés...
- Ramon MuntanerRamon MuntanerRamon Muntaner was a Catalan soldier and writer who wrote the Crònica, a chronicle of his life, including his adventures as a commander in the Catalan Company...
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- Nicolau de Pacs
- Miquel de Palol
- Teresa Pàmies
- Sergi PàmiesSergi PàmiesSergi Pàmies is a Spanish Catalan writer, translator, journalist and television and radio presenter. He is the son of the writer Teresa Pàmies and the former general secretary of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia, Gregorio López Raimundo. In his works he employs humor and parody mixing...
- Manuel de PedroloManuel de PedroloManuel de Pedrolo i Molina was a Catalan author of novels, short stories, poetry and plays. He's mostly known for his sci-fi novel Second origin typescript.-Mini-biography:...
- Ramon de Perellós
- Joan Perucho
- Josep Pin i Soler
- Josep PlaJosep PlaJosep Pla i Casadevall was a Catalan Spanish journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, England, Germany and Russia, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles in Catalan.His figure is somewhat controversial for present day Catalans...
- Baltasar Porcel i Pujol
- Josep Pous i Pagès
- Gilabert de PróixitaGilabert de PróixitaGilabert de Próixita was a Valencian poet with twenty-one extant Occitan pieces. He is credited by his first editor with a renovellament of Catalan poetry through the incorporation of Italian and French ideas into a model of courtly love taken from the classical troubadours...
- Joan Puig i Ferreter
- Frederic Pujulà i VallésFrederic Pujulà i VallésFrederic Pujulà i Vallès was a Catalan journalist, dramatist, and a passionate Esperantist and contributor to the field of Esperanto literature. Born in Palamós, Catalonia, he travelled through Europe and stayed for a long time in Paris. He was involved in Joventut , the best "modernisme" review...
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- Joan Ramis i Ramis
- Carles RibaCarles RibaCarles Riba i Bracons was a Catalan poet, writer and translator.He was born in Barcelona and studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. In 1916 he married the poet Clementina Arderiu. He worked for a time in the School of Librarianship.In 1922 he travelled to Munich to study under...
- Mercè RodoredaMercè RodoredaMercè Rodoreda i Gurguí was a Spanish Catalan novelist in the Catalan language.She is considered by many to be the most important Catalan novelist of the postwar period...
- Jaume Roig
- Montserrat RoigMontserrat RoigMontserrat Roig i Fransitorra was a Catalan writer of novels, short stories and articles.- Biography :...
- Josep RomagueraJosep RomagueraJosep Romaguera is the author of the only emblem book ever published in the Catalan language, the Atheneo de Grandesa. His work consists of prose, poetry and sermons...
- Bartomeu Rosselló-PòrcelBartomeu Rosselló-PòrcelBartomeu Rosselló-Pòrcel was a Spanish Balearic poet.He completed his bachelor degree in Arts and Philosophy in Barcelona and his PhD degree in Madrid...
- Santiago RusiñolSantiago RusiñolSantiago Rusiñol i Prats was a Catalan post-impressionist/Symbolist painter, poet, and playwright.He was born in Barcelona in 1861, and died in Aranjuez in 1931 while painting its famous gardens....
- Joaquim Ruyra