Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of t…
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and, although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, …
Primo Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor whose literary work has had a profound impact on how the world understands the Holocaust and its aftermath. Born in Turin in 19…
Quim Monzó was born in Barcelona in 1952. He has been awarded the National Award for fiction; the City of Barcelona Award for fiction; the Prudenci Bertrana Award for fiction; the El Temps Award for be…
Carmen Laforet Y Díaz was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature and her f…
She is considered by many to be the most important Catalan novelist of the postwar period. Her novel "La plaça del diamant" ('The diamond square', transl…
Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 – 184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest works in Latin literature to have survived in their en…
Joan Sales, novelista, poeta, traductor i editor. Després d'un exili de nou anys, a causa de la seva participació en la Guerra Civil espanyola, esdevé un dels editors més eficaços en la represa cultur…
Escriptor, periodista i dibuixant. Estudià a l'Escola Superior de Belles Arts. Es donà a conèixer a L'Esquella de la Torratxa (1936), revista que dirigí durant la darrera època amb Avel·lí Artís i Gen…
Jacint Verdaguer is regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature and a prominent literary figure of the Renaixença, a national revival movement of the late Romanti…
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. Llice…
Victor Català was the penname of Caterina Albert i Paradís, a catalan writer who took part in catalan Modernism movement. Her literary skill was first recognized in 1898, when she received the Jocs Fl…
Bernat Metge (Barcelona, entre 1340 i 1346 – 1413) fou un escriptor, traductor i primer representant de l'humanisme a les lletres catalanes. És considerat un dels millors prosistes del tombant del seg…
Santiago Rusiñol (Barcelona, 1861 - Aranjuez, 1931) Autor dramàtic, narrador, pintor i col·leccionista. Va iniciar la seva carrera creativa com a pintor, i amb posterioritat es va dedicar a la literat…
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 …
Carles Soldevila i Zubiburu (Barcelona, 1892-1967). Germà de l'historiador Ferran Soldevila, va ser dramaturg, poeta, periodista i novel·lista català. Va endegar una important tasca com a promotor cul…
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 …
Irene Solà is a Spanish writer and an artist. She has exhibited her work at the CCCB in Barcelona and the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Her first book of poems Bèstia won the 2012 Amadeu Oller Prize …
Maria Antònia Oliver Cabrer fou una destacada escriptora mallorquina en llengua catalana, resident a Barcelona des del 1969. Éra principalment coneguda per la producció novel·lística i de narrativa br…
Alana S. Portero (Madrid, 1978) es una escritora, poeta, dramaturga y directora escénica española que escribe sobre cultura, feminismo y activismo LGTB con un enfoque concreto en la realidad de las mu…
