Josep Carner
Author

Poems

Retorn a Catalunya catalan

Translations: en es

El dia revolt catalan

Cançonetes del Déu-nos do catalan

Translations: es

Madrigal a Sitges catalan

Translations: en

De la Vila del Vendrell catalan

Translations: en

Siurana catalan

Translations: es

Els pollancs de França catalan

Translations: en

Cançó de vell catalan

Translations: en

Josep Carner
Author

About

* 09.02.1884, Barcelona, Spain
† 04.06.1970, Belgium

Josep Carner (Barcelona, 1884 - Brussels, 1970) is known as “the prince of Catalan poets”. He renewed poetry, language and prose and created a new style of political journalism. He graduated in Law and in Philosophy and Letters and embarked on a diplomatic career, during which he was posted to Genoa, San José in Costa Rica, Le Havre, Hendaye, Beirut, Brussels and Paris. During the Spanish Civil War, he remained loyal to the Republic and thereafter never returned to make his home in Catalonia.

Carner’s collection of poems Els fruits saborosos (1906, Flavoursome Fruits) is regarded by critics as one of the landmarks of Noucentisme, the movement which he was a leading light of. His work evolved towards Post-Symbolism in books such as Auques i ventalls (Cartoons and Fans), El cor quiet (The Quiet Heart) and Nabí. He was also renowned as a translator of authors such as Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Arnold Bennett, Alfred de Musset, Jean de La Fontaine, Daniel Defoe and Lewis Carroll. In 1910, when he was just 26 years old, he was proclaimed Master of Gay Science at the Jocs Florals poetry competition.