Joan Margarit

SOMNI D'UNA NIT D'ESTIU

Language: catalan

Translations: german (SOMMERNACHTSTRAUM), spanish (SUEÑO DE UNA NOCHE DE VERANO), esperanto (SOMERMEZNOKTA SONĜO), english (Midsummer night´s dream)

SOMNI D'UNA NIT D'ESTIU

Hem aturat el cotxe
vora un mur de xiprers.
Fa trenta anys que vivim junts.
Jo era un jove inexpert i tu una noia
desemparada i càlida.
L’ombra de l’última oportunitat
està ocultant la lluna.
Sóc un vell inexpert.
I tu una dona gran desemparada.

Joan Margarit

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* 11.05.1938, Sanaüja, Spain
lives in: , 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.

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