Marian AguilóW
Marian Aguiló

Marià Aguiló (1825–1897) was a Spanish poet and linguist.

Joan AlcoverW
Joan Alcover

Joan Alcover i Maspons was a Spanish Balearic writer, poet, essayist and politician.

Alfonso II of AragonW
Alfonso II of Aragon

Alfonso II, called the Chaste or the Troubadour, was the King of Aragon and, as Alfons I, the Count of Barcelona from 1164 until his death. The eldest son of Count Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona and Queen Petronilla of Aragon, he was the first King of Aragon who was also Count of Barcelona. He was also Count of Provence, which he conquered from Douce II, from 1166 until 1173, when he ceded it to his brother, Ramon Berenguer III. His reign has been characterised by nationalistic and nostalgic Catalan historians, as l'engrandiment occitànic or "the Pyrenean unity": a great scheme to unite various lands on both sides of the Pyrenees under the rule of the House of Barcelona.

Gabriel Alomar i VillalongaW
Gabriel Alomar i Villalonga

Gabriel Alomar was a poet, essayist, educator and diplomat of the early twentieth century in Spain, closely related to the Catalan art movement Modernisme. He was an active leftist libertarian, chiefly in Barcelona and the other Catalan-speaking regions, from the first years of the 20th century until his death from pneumonia in exile.

Sebastià Alzamora i MartínW
Sebastià Alzamora i Martín

Sebastià Alzamora i Martín is a writer, literary critic and cultural manager from Majorca. Self-proclaimed member of the poetic group called Imparables ("Unstoppable")

Clementina ArderiuW
Clementina Arderiu

Clementina Arderiu was a Spanish poet who wrote in the Catalan language.

Joan BrossaW
Joan Brossa

Joan Brossa was a Catalan poet, playwright, graphic designer and visual artist. He wrote only in the Catalan language.

Josep CarnerW
Josep Carner

Josep Carner i Puigoriol, was a Catalan poet, journalist, playwright and translator. He was also known as the Prince of Catalan Poets. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times.

Josep Maria CastelletW
Josep Maria Castellet

Josep Maria Castellet Díaz de Cossío, also known as José María Castellet, was a Spanish Catalan writer, poet, literacy critic, publisher and editor.

Maria Chessa LaiW
Maria Chessa Lai

Maria Chessa Lai was a poet writing in the Catalan Algherese dialect. She was three times winner of the Premio Ozieri awarded annually for the best new poetry written in a Sardinian minority language. As a bilingual poet she published her poems simultaneously in Algherese and Italian. The majority of her work was collected together and published in the volume La Mia Mar in 2005. She was the mother of the journalist, academic, and author Pasquale Chessa.

Salvador EspriuW
Salvador Espriu

Salvador Espriu i Castelló was a Catalan poet who wrote most of his works in Catalan.

Vicent Andrés EstellésW
Vicent Andrés Estellés

Vicent Andrés Estellés was a Spanish journalist and poet. He is considered one of the main renovators of modern Valencian poetry, with a similar role to that of Ausiàs March or Joan Roís de Corella in earlier periods.

Carles Fages de ClimentW
Carles Fages de Climent

Carles Fages de Climent was a writer, poet and journalist from the Empordà, a historical region of Catalonia, Spain. He was born in Figueres on May 16, 1902. In Figueres' high school, he met Salvador Dalí, starting a friendship that would last all their lives.

Josep Vicenç FoixW
Josep Vicenç Foix

Josep Vicenç Foix i Mas was a Catalan poet, writer, and essayist in Catalan. He usually signed his work by using the abbreviation J.V. Foix.

Ausiàs MarchW
Ausiàs March

Ausiàs March was a medieval Valencian poet and knight from Gandia, Valencia. He is considered as one of the most important poets of the "Golden Century" of Catalan literature.

Joan Margarit i ConsarnauW
Joan Margarit i Consarnau

Joan Margarit i Consarnau is a Spanish poet, architect and retired professor. Most of his work is written in the Catalan language. He won the 2019 Miguel de Cervantes Prize.

Jaume MedinaW
Jaume Medina

Jaume Medina i Casanovas is a Catalan philologist, latinist, writer, translator and poet.

Ovidi MontllorW
Ovidi Montllor

Ovidi Montllor was a Spanish singer-songwriter and actor.

Josep Pedrals i UrdànizW
Josep Pedrals i Urdàniz

Josep Pedrals i Urdàniz is a Catalan poet and rhapsodist. He is a personality in the world of poetry reading in the Catalan Countries. He has also contributed to various mass media, including the Avui newspaper, Catalunya Ràdio or the magazines El Temps, Paper of Vidre and Bossa Nova. In the music dimension, in 2007 he carried through the hip-hop show Endoll, along with Guillamino. Before he had acted with "Explosión Bikini" and he is currently working with the band Els Nens Eutròfics.

Manuel de PedroloW
Manuel de Pedrolo

Manuel de Pedrolo i Molina was an author of novels, short stories, poetry and plays. He's mostly known for his sci-fi novel Mecanoscrit del segon origen.

Peter III of AragonW
Peter III of Aragon

Peter III of Aragon was King of Aragon, King of Valencia, and Count of Barcelona from 1276 to his death. At the invitation of some rebels, he conquered the Kingdom of Sicily and became King of Sicily in 1282, pressing the claim of his wife, Constance II of Sicily, uniting the kingdom to the crown.

Carles RibaW
Carles Riba

Carles Riba i Bracons was a Catalan poet, writer and translator.

Joaquim RuyraW
Joaquim Ruyra

Joaquim Ruyra i Oms was a Catalan short-story writer, poet and translator, considered a key figure in modern Catalan literature and one of the great narrators of the 20th century.

Josep Maria de SagarraW
Josep Maria de Sagarra

Josep Maria de Sagarra i de Castellarnau was a Catalan language writer from Barcelona, Spain.

Joan Salvat-PapasseitW
Joan Salvat-Papasseit

Joan Salvat-Papasseit was a Catalan poet, though he also wrote articles, manifestos and other prose of a political and social nature. He wrote primarily in Catalan, although he had an early period of essay-writing in Spanish.

Cèlia Sànchez-MústichW
Cèlia Sànchez-Mústich

Cèlia Sànchez-Mústich is a spanish poet and writer in the Catalan language. She has lived in Sitges since 2001.

Jaume Subirana i OrtínW
Jaume Subirana i Ortín

Jaume Subirana is a Catalan writer, scholar, and blogger. Associate Professor of literature at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). He holds a PhD in Catalan Language and Literature from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1999), and a degree in Arts from the same university.

Anselm TurmedaW
Anselm Turmeda

Anselm Turmeda, later known as Abd-Allah at-Tarjuman, was a Christian priest from Mallorca who converted to Islam and settled in Tunis. He is one of the earliest writers to have written in both Arabic and a Latin language (Catalan). He became a vizier in Hafsid Tunis where he died in 1423 during the reign of Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz II.

Llorenç Vidal VidalW
Llorenç Vidal Vidal

Llorenzo Vidal Vidal, Majorcan poet, educator and pacifist, founded in 1964 the School Day of Non-violence and Peace (DENIP) a pioneering, non-state, non-governmental, non-official, independent, free and voluntary initiative of Non-violent and Pacifying Education, which is now practised in schools all over the world and in which centres of education, teachers and students of all levels and from all countries are invited to take part. In 2010, the Cercle Universel des Ambassadeurs de la Paix, Geneva (Switzerland), has appointed him Ambassador of Peace.