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Jordi Llavina i Murgadas

Mà de noia

  • 1 Casa | Translations: en
  • 2 Ermita (fragment) | Translations: en
  • 3 Les feies mortes | Translations: enesfr
  • 4 Tens set, i beus | Translations: enesfr
  • 5 L'esperança | Translations: enesfr
  • 6 Hospital (i II) | Translations: en
  • 7 Mà de noia | Translations: en
  • 8 Ramat | Translations: en
  • 9 Amor va | Translations: en
  • 10 Dinar de Nadal | Translations: en
Language: catalan
Translations: english (A Girl’s Hand)
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Mà de noia

                                   Quan tu te’n vas,
                                   me deixes la mà tan morta
                                   i tan sola, que me cau.
                                                        Blai Bonet

Durant molts anys vaig témer aquelles mans.
Es rabejaven sota la canella,
i una, balmada, es feia una escudella
si jo tenia set —les seves mans

que tant vaig estimar!—. Eren amants
la meva esquerra i la mà dreta d’ella.
Semblaven fetes de pell de parpella,
les seves mans de noia, sense guants.

Quan jo estava enfebrat, ella em posava
la mà damunt el front i, maternal,
l’hi deixava un instant; i era un regal

sentir al llit, en la fosca, que em palpava
—dits ensonyats— per saber-me a frec seu.
Aquella mà es va fer per dir-me adéu.

© Jordi Llavina
From: Contrada
3i4 Edicions, 2014
Audio production: Radio Vilafranca

Translations:

Language: english

A Girl’s Hand

                                   When you go,
                                   you leave my hand so dead
                                   and so alone, that from me it falls.
                                                    Blai Bonet

I worried about these hands for many years.
They were soaked under the tap,
and one, empty, made an escudella
if I was thirsty - her hands

oh how I loved them! -. They were lovers
my left hand and her right.
As if made from eyelid skin,
her gloveless, girlish hands.

When I had fever, she would put
her hand on my forehead and, motheringly,
she would leave it there for a moment; it was a gift

to feel in the darkness in bed, caressing me
- sleepy fingers - to know I was by her side.
This hand was made to bid me farewell.

Translated by Douglas Suttle.
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Jordi Llavina i Murgadas

photo © Xulio Ricardo Trigo
* 19.03.1968, Spain

Jordi Llavina i Murgadas (Gelida, Alt Penedès, 19 March 1968) is a writer, poet, literary critic, and radio and television programme host.
He writes columns for the newspapers Avui, El Mundo, La Vanguardia and the weekly El 3 de vuit as well as hosting the television programme “El book insignia”. In radio, he hosted the programme “Fum d’estampa” of the no longer existing station Catalunya Cultura.
As a mature writer, he began to work with different genres, including poetry and fiction. In the former case, he received the City of Mallorca Award for his collection La Corda del gronxador (The Rope of the Swing) and, in 2007, the Alfons el Magnànim Prize for Catalan Language Poetry for his work Diari d’un setembrista (Diary of a Septembrist), for which he was also awarded the 2008 Serra d’Or Critics Prize for Poetry. He has also received the Vicent Andrés Estellés Poetry Prize (Nightfall, 2011) in the October Awards, and the Critics Prize for Catalan Poetry for the collection Vetlla (Night Hours, 2013). For his latest book, the poem Ermita, he was awarded Lletra d'or for the most important book of the year 2018.
In June 2013 he took part in the Third Book Club Encounter of the Alt Penedès and El Garraf libraries. The readers of all these clubs have read his works Ningú ha escombrat les fulles (No One Swept up the Leaves), Londres nevat (Snowy London), and El llaütista i la captaire (The Lute Player and the Beggar).
In 2014, Jordi Llavina was the curator of L’Any Vinyoli (Vinyoli Year) celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the famous Catalan poet.

 photo © Xulio Ricardo Trigo
Publications
  • La corda del gronxador

    2006

  • Diari d’un setembrista

    2007

  • País de vent

    2011

  • Vetlla

    2013

  • Contrada

    2014

  • Matí de la mort

    2015

  • Ermita

    2017

Awards
  • 2006 Ciutat de Palma – Joan Alcover de Poesia

  • 2007 Alfons el Magnànim

  • 2008 Crítica Serra d’Or

  • 2011 Vila de Martorell

  • 2011 Vicent Andrés Estellés

  • 2013 Crítica de Poesia Catalana

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