Montserrat Abelló i SolerW
Montserrat Abelló i Soler

Montserrat Abelló i Soler was a Catalan poet and translator. During the Spanish Civil War, she lived in exile in France, England and Chile.

Amanieu de SescarsW
Amanieu de Sescars

Amanieu de Sescars or Amanieu des Escàs was a Catalan, possibly Gascon, troubadour of the late 13th century. Famous for his love songs in his own day, his contemporaries gave him the nickname dieu d'amor. He wrote two ensenhamens and two saluts d'amor that survive.

Eva BaltasarW
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. It received the 2018 Catalan Booksellers Award and it has sold the translation rights to six languages.

Joaquín BartrinaW
Joaquín Bartrina

Joaquim Maria Bartrina i de Aixemús was a Spanish poet and playwright born in Reus, Spain, whose work is linked to the Realist movement. He is considered one of the founding fathers of the Catalan literary avant-garde.

Pau de BellviureW
Pau de Bellviure

Pau de Bellviure was a Catalan poet of the fourteenth and/or fifteenth centuries. To the Catalan and Spanish writers of the Renaissance he was a model of courtly love who had attained gran fama. Pere Torroella lists him among the "doctors" of poetry. According to Ausiàs March, his love for his lady turned him mad and he broke his neck and died, a martyr to love.

Berenguier de PalazolW
Berenguier de Palazol

Berenguier de Palazol, Palol, or Palou was a Catalan troubadour from Palol in the County of Roussillon. Of his total output twelve cansos survive, and a relatively high proportion—eight—with melodies.

Blanca BusquetsW
Blanca Busquets

Blanca Busquets is a Catalan journalist and writer. She is the author of nine novels, for which she has won the 2011 Catalan Booksellers' Prize and the 2015 Alghero Donna Award in Italy. As a journalist, she's worked for Catalunya Ràdio, Catalan public radio broadcaster, since 1986.

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.

David Castillo i BuïlsW
David Castillo i Buïls

David Castillo i Buïls is a Catalan poet, writer, and literary critic. He started out as a poet with counterculture and clandestine publications in the 1970s, although his first published work, a declaration of principles, was the biography of Bob Dylan in 1992. Three years earlier, he had been the anthologist of Ser del segle, which brought together leading voices of the generation of the 1980s. They were followed by a series of poems among them Game over, which won the Premi Carles Riba de poesia|premi Carles Riba. Then, he began a career as a writer with novels like El cel de l'infern and No miris enrere, that was well accepted both by critics and the general public. The first work has been awarded with the premi Crexells for the best Catalan novel of the year 1999. The second has been awarded the Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la of 2001. He has received three times the "Atlàntida awards for journalism" and he has also been awarded the Italian "Tratti Poetry Prize for the best foreign poet" for his anthology of poetry translated into Italian. He has been organizing various poetic cycles and he is founder and director of the Poetry Week in Barcelona since 1997.

Cerverí de GironaW
Cerverí de Girona

Cerverí de Girona was a Catalan troubadour born Guillem de Cervera in Girona. He was the most prolific troubadour, leaving behind some 114 lyric poems among other works, including an ensenhamen of proverbs for his son, totaling about 130. He was a court poet to James the Conqueror and Peter the Great. He wrote pastorelas and sirventes and his overriding concern was the complexities of court life. None of his music survives.

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.

Francesc FontanellaW
Francesc Fontanella

Francesc Fontanella was a Catalan poet, dramatist, and priest.

Feliu FormosaW
Feliu Formosa

Feliu Formosa Torres is a Catalan dramatist, poet and translator. He has served as dean of Institució de les Lletres Catalanes.

Albert Forns i CanalW
Albert Forns i Canal

Albert Forns i Canal is a Catalan journalist, writer and poet. Specialised in digital journalism, has worked in cultural institutions like the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona. Forns stands out for having won the Documenta Prize of narrative with his first novel Albert Serra, where the author questions some appearances of the contemporary art mixing fiction, journalism and essay, and where also appear other Catalan artists out like Miquel Barceló or Salvador Dalí, and other writers like Enrique Vila-Matas The autumn of 2013 Forns received a scholarship from the Institut Ramon Llull to stay at a writers' residence in the State of New York, to prepare his second novel, Jambalaia, rewarded with First Anagrama Prize for Novels in Catalan language. In 2020 he won the Sant Joan Award for his forthcoming novel Abans de les cinc som a casa.

Francesc Vicent GarciaW
Francesc Vicent Garcia

Francesc Vicent Garcia i Ferrandis was an early modern Catalan poet poet known by the pseudonym of the Vallfogona Rector. He was born in Zaragoza in 1579 and died in Vallfogona de Riucorb in 1623. In 1605 he was ordained in Vic.

Jaime Gil de BiedmaW
Jaime Gil de Biedma

Jaime Gil de Biedma y Alba was a Spanish post-Civil War poet.

Guillem de CabestanyW
Guillem de Cabestany

Guillem de Cabestany was a Catalan troubadour from Cabestany in the County of Roussillon. He is often known by his Old Occitan name, Guilhem de Cabestaing, Cabestang, Cabestan, or Cabestanh.

Guillem de RibesW
Guillem de Ribes

Guillem de Ribes was a Catalan nobleman and troubadour, that is, a composer of music and lyric verse in the Old Occitan language. None of his works survive and he is known as a troubadour only from a single reference to him in a song by another troubadour

Conxita JuliàW
Conxita Julià

Conxita Julià i Farrés, also known as Conxita de Carrasco, was a Catalan woman noted for her dealings with Lluís Companys, President of Catalonia, in the 1930s, and for her poetry. Julià died in January 2019 at the age of 98.

Joan MaragallW
Joan Maragall

Joan Maragall i Gorina was a Catalan poet, journalist and translator, the foremost member of the modernisme movement in literature. His manuscripts are preserved in the Joan Maragall Archive of Barcelona.

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.

Eduardo MarquinaW
Eduardo Marquina

Eduardo Marquina was a Spanish playwright and poet associated with the Catalan Modernist school. His En Flandes se ha puesto el Sol was awarded the Royal Spanish Academy's award for historical drama. He also wrote lyrics for the Spanish anthem Marcha Real, used during the reign of Alfonso XII.

Laia Martínez i LópezW
Laia Martínez i López

Laia Martínez i López, also known as Laia MaLo, (1984) is a Catalan writer and musician.

Ana María Martínez SagiW
Ana María Martínez Sagi

Ana María Martínez Sagi was a Catalan poet, trade unionist, journalist, feminist and athlete of Republican Spain.

Gabriel MógerW
Gabriel Móger

Gabriel 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 some years earlier. A document of 8 March 1404 calls him minor xxv annis et maior tamen xx. By 2 January 1414 he was married and the poem was most likely composed between those dates.

Dolors MonserdàW
Dolors Monserdà

Dolors Monserdà i Vidal was a Spanish writer, poet, storyteller, playwright, essayist, and columnist of Catalan descent. She was the sister of the painter Enric Monserdá i Vidal (1850-1926), and her daughter was married to the modernist architect, Josep Puig i Cadafalch.

Josep Palau i FabreW
Josep Palau i Fabre

Josep Palau i Fabre was a Spanish Catalan poet and writer. He was a representative of Catalan literature during the post-World War period and a world expert on the work of Pablo Picasso.

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.

Pere de QueraltW
Pere de Queralt

Pere de Queralt was a Catalan nobleman, diplomat, and poet; "una destacada figura del seu temps". He was the nephew of Guerau de Queralt, husband of Clemença de Perellós, and lord of Santa Coloma. He is not to be confused with the knight Pere de Queralt of the thirteenth century, who reportedly fought a lion and won: an act commemorated in a carved vault keystone in the church of Santa Maria de Bell-lloc in Santa Coloma.

Gerard QuintanaW
Gerard Quintana

Gerard Quintana Rodeja is a spanish Español singer, songwriter, poet, writer, actor, and radio and TV personality. He first came to prominence in 1986-2001 as the lead singer of the rock band Sopa de Cabra. Sopa de Cabra was one of the leading bands of the rock català genre. Since the dissolution of the band in 2001, he has pursued a very successful solo career. As a singer/songwriter independent of his extensive input into the original musical repertoire of Sopa de Cabra, he completed 5 well-received albums between 2003 and 2010, together with 3 in collaboration with Jordi Batiste, and a recent album (2014) with Xarim Aresté. His solo work from 2003-10 reveals a personal and intimate style which is not easily classified, but may, perhaps, be characterised as poetry and music about the human condition. He also writes and publishes poetry, and has written regularly as a journalist for online Catalan newspapers and journals. He has published two books and appeared in the film Diogenes, the dog.

Albert Ràfols-CasamadaW
Albert Ràfols-Casamada

Albert Ràfols-Casamada was a Catalan painter, poet and art teacher involved in the vanguard movements of his time. He is considered one of the most important, multifaceted Catalan artists of his time. His artwork began in the post-expressionist, figurative sphere but soon developed into his own abstract style grounded in a poetic rendering of everyday reality.

Carles RibaW
Carles Riba

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

Jaime SabartésW
Jaime Sabartés

Jaume Sabartés i Gual, was a Catalan Spanish artist, poet and writer. He was a close friend of Pablo Picasso and later became his secretary/administrator.

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.

Ramon Solsona i SanchoW
Ramon Solsona i Sancho

Ramon Solsona i Sancho is a Catalan writer and publicist. He has a degree in Romance Philology and he is also a high school teacher on leave. Notable for his ironic style and numerous collaborations with print media and radio, he is a currently collaborator of a radio program.

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.

Ramon Bech TabernerW
Ramon Bech Taberner

Ramon Bech Taberner (1918-1995) was a Catalan writer and journalist.

Jordi Valls i PozoW
Jordi Valls i Pozo

Jordi Valls i Pozo is a Catalan poet.

Ramón XirauW
Ramón Xirau

Ramón Xirau Subías was a Spanish-born Mexican poet, philosopher and literary critic.

Olga Xirinacs DíazW
Olga Xirinacs Díaz

Olga Xirinacs Díaz is a Spanish writer and piano teacher. During her literary career, she has written poetry, drama, tales and essays. She was born in Tarragona, where she still lives and works.