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Joan Margarit

PRIMER AMOR

  • 1 SOMNI D'UNA NIT D'ESTIU | Translations: deeneoes
  • 2 PRIMER AMOR | Translations: deesnl
  • 3 ELS MORTS | Translations: deenes
  • 4 PRINCIPIS I FINALS | Translations: deenestr
  • 5 FINAL DE RECITAL | Translations: dees
Language: catalan
Translations: german (ERSTE LIEBE), spanish (PRIMER AMOR), dutch (EERSTE LIEFDE)
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PRIMER AMOR

En la Girona trista dels set anys,
on els aparadors de la postguerra
tenien un color gris de penúria,
la ganiveteria era un esclat
de llum en els petits miralls d’acer.
Amb el front descansant damunt del vidre,
mirava una navalla, llarga i fina,
bella com una estàtua de marbre.
Com que els de casa no volien armes,
vaig comprar-la en secret i, en caminar,
la sentia, pesant, dins la butxaca.
A vegades l’obria a poc a poc
i sorgia la fulla recta i prima
amb la conventual fredor de l’arma.
Presència callada del perill:
vaig amagar-la, els trenta primers anys,
rere llibres de versos i després
dins un calaix, entre les teves calces
i entre les teves mitges.
Ara, a punt de complir els cinquanta quatre,
torno a mirar-la oberta al meu palmell,
tan perillosa com a la infantesa.
Sensual, freda. Més a prop del coll.

© Joan Margarit
From: Els motius del llop
Barcelona: Columna, 1993
Audio production: Institut Ramon Llull
Categories: love

Translations:

Language: german

ERSTE LIEBE

Im traurigen Girona meines siebten Jahrs,

wo die Schaufenster der Nachkriegszeit

die graue Farbe des Mangels hatten,

war das Messergeschäft ein Ausbruch

von Licht in den kleinen Spiegeln aus Stahl.

Die Stirn an die Scheibe gedrückt

betrachtete ich ein Taschenmesser, lang und schmal,

schön wie eine Statue aus Marmor.

Weil man zu Hause keine Waffen wollte,

habe ich es heimlich gekauft. Wenn ich ging,

schlug es mir in der Tasche gegen den Schenkel.

Manchmal öffnete ich es vorsichtig

und die gerade, dünne Klinge trat heraus

mit der klösterlichen Kälte der Waffe.

Verschwiegene Anwesenheit der Gefahr:

die ersten dreißig Jahre habe ich es versteckt,

hinter Gedichtbänden und später

in einer Schublade, zwischen deinen Höschen

und zwischen deinen Strümpfen.

Jetzt, kurz vor dem achtundsechzigsten Geburtstag,

betrachte ich es wieder, geöffnet auf meiner Handfläche,

so gefährlich wie in der Kindheit.

Sinnlich, kalt. Näher am Hals.

Aus dem Katalanischen von Juana Burghardt und Tobias Burghardt.
Language: spanish

PRIMER AMOR

A José Agustín Goytisolo


Triste Girona de mis siete años:

en la posguerra los escaparates

tenían un color gris de penuria.

Y, sin embargo, en la cuchillería,

en cada hoja de acero destellaba la luz

como si se tratase de pequeños espejos.

Descansando la frente en el cristal,

miraba una navaja larga y fina,

bella como una estatua de mármol.

Puesto que en casa no querían armas,

fui a comprarla en secreto y, al andar,

la sentía, pesada, en mi bolsillo.

Cuando, a veces, la abría, muy despacio,

surgía, recta y afilada, la hoja

con esa conventual frialdad del arma.

Silenciosa presencia del peligro:

la oculté, los primeros treinta años,

tras los libros de versos y, después,

en un cajón, metida entre tus bragas

y entre tus medias.

Hoy, cerca ya de los cincuenta y cuatro,

vuelvo a mirarla, abierta en la palma de mi mano,

igual de peligrosa que en la infancia.

Fría, sensual. Más cerca de mi cuello.

Translated by the author
Joan Margarit
Language: dutch

EERSTE LIEFDE

In het trieste Gerona van mijn zevende jaar,
waar de naoorlogse etalages
de grauwe tint hadden van de schaarste,
was de messenwinkel een schittering
van licht in die kleine stalen spiegels.
Met mijn voorhoofd tegen het glas gedrukt
keek ik naar een lang en slank knipmes
zo mooi als een marmeren beeld.
Omdat ze bij mij thuis van wapens niets wilden weten,
kocht ik het in het geheim en bij het lopen
voelde ik het gewicht in mijn broekzak.
Nu en dan deed ik het langzaam open,
en dan sprong het lemmet eruit, recht en slank,
met de kloosterlijke koude van het wapen.
Verzwegen aanwezigheid van gevaar:
ik verborg het, de eerste dertig jaar
achter bundels poëzie en daarna
in een la tussen jouw slipjes
en tussen je kousen.
Nu, bijna vierenvijftig jaar oud,
bekijk ik het weer, open in mijn handpalm,
even gevaarlijk als in mijn kindertijd.
Zinnelijk, koud. Dichter bij mijn hals.

Translated by Helena Overkleeft and Peter Verstegen
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Joan Margarit

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* 11.05.1938, Barcelona, Spain
† 16.02.2021, Barcelona, Spain

Joan Margarit studied Architecture in Barcelona and moved to live permanently in this city in 1961. Since 1968 he has been Professor of Calculus at the School of Architecture in Barcelona.

The most intensive and successful part of his work has been written since 1987.Throughout its long and supple existence, Joan Margarit’s poetry has kept acquiring more and more readers so that he has now become one of the most widely read Catalan poets in Catalonia and also in the rest of the Peninsula. His early works were written in Spanish but he would eventually switch to Catalan.

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His poetry is realist with a strong presence of autobiographical elements, a well-tempered use of metaphor, and reflections of a moral nature that move from the individual to the collective. In Margarit’s work, anonymous individuals and jazz musicians might be the protagonists of a poem. Among the awards he has received are the Crítica Serra d’Or Prize for Poetry, the Flor Natural Prize in the Jocs Florals of Barcelona (on two occasions) the Carles Riba Prize, the National Literature Prize and the Jaume Fuster Prize. 

His poetry has been translated to English, Russian, Hebrew, German, Portuguese and French. He is also a translator from Catalan to Spanish and German and from English to Catalan. 



Publications
  • Vell malentés

    València: Tres I Quatre,, 1981

  • El passat I la joia

    Barcelona: Eumo, 1982

  • Cants d’Hekatónim de Tifundis

    Barcelona: La Gaia Ciència, 1982

  • L’illa del tresor

    Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona, 1985

  • Mar d’hivern

    Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1986

  • Els motius del llop

    Barcelona: Columna, 1993

  • Aiguafort

    Barcelona: Columna, 1995

  • Remolcadors entre la boira

    Argentona: L’aixernador, 1995

  • Antologia del navegant

    Barcelona: La Magrana, 1993,

  • Estació de França

    Madrid: Hiperión, 1999

  • Trist el que mai no ha perdut per amor una casa

    Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2001

  • Joana

    Barcelona: Proa, 2002

  • Els primers freds, poesia 1975-1995

    Barcelona: Proa, 2004

  • Càlcul d’estructures

    Barcelona: Proa, 2005

  • Perdiu Jove

    Barcelona: Cruïlla, 2006

  • Casa de misericòrdia

    Barcelona: Proa, 2007

  • Barcelona: amor final

    Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2007

  • Misteriosament feliç

    Barcelona: Proa, 2008

  • Noves cartes a un jove poeta

    Barcelona: Proa, 2009

  • No era lluny ni difícil

    Barcelona: Proa, 2010

  • Poesia amorosa completa

    Barcelona: Edicions 62, 2010

  • Es perd el senyal

    Barcelona: Proa, 2012

  • Marbre d'aire

    Andorra La Vella: Editorial Andorra, 2012

  • Poemes d'amor

    Barcelona: Enciclopèdia catalana, 2013

  • Des d'on tornar a estimar

    Barcelona: Proa, 2015

Awards
  • 1981 Critica Prize

  • 1982, 1987, 2007 Serra d’Or Prize

  • 1984, 2008 Premio Nacional de la Crítica

  • 1985 Flor Natural Prize

  • 1985 Carles Riba Prize

  • 2005 Serra d’Or Prize

  • 2007 Premi Gabriel Ferrater

  • 2008 Premi Nacional de Literatura de la Generalitat de Catalunya

  • 2016 Jaume Fuster Prize

  • 2017 Premio Iberoamericano de Poesía Pablo Neruda

  • 2008 Rosalía de Castro Prize

  • 2008 Premio Nacional de Poesía

  • 2013 Víctor Sandoval Poetas del Mundo Latino Prize

  • 2016 Jaume Fuster Award

  • 2017 Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Award

  • 2019 Premio Cervantes

Links
  • Lletra.net

  • Website of Joan Margarit

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