Ponç Pons
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Tristia каталанский

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A la poesia каталанский

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Cala's morts каталанский

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Dictat d'amor каталанский

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Ecce Homo каталанский

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Exordi каталанский

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Obituari каталанский

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Ponç Pons
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About

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* 20.05.1956, Alayor, Испания
Место жительства: , Испания

Ponç Pons (born in 1956 in Alayor, Minorca) was a precocious reader from a very early age. At present, he teaches at a high school in Minorca.

With a great knowledge of French, Portuguese and Italian literature, and after writing articles and papers on literary criticism for a number of newspapers and reviews in the Balearic Islands, he started to publish works in prose – short stories, novels and children’s books – and poetry. In 1995, he has published among others the collections: Where the Track Ends, winner of the Joan Alcover City of Palma Prize, Stigma, which was awarded the Jocs Florals [literary competition] of Barcelona Prize and the Josep Maria Llompart Critics’ Prize, Brine for which he received the Carles Riba Prize, and Nura, for which he received the Viola d'Or Prize, Serra d'Or Critic's Prize and the National Critic's Prize. In 2003 he published Pessoanes for which he won Alfons el Magnànim Prize and the Association of Catalan Language Writers Prize. In 2015 he published Camp de Bard for which he won Miquel de Palol Prize. He is also a playwright and in 2009 he published Lokus.

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Pons defines himself: “I can’t be and nor am I more than literature!” It is a passionate definition. The poet experiences literature as an obsessive, lucid and consuming passion. He defines his poetry as classical in its rhythm, modern in its expression and forceful in its content. Firstly, Ponç Pons writes poems that respect metrics, with a rhythm that is pleasing to the ear. Secondly, he uses a literary language that, while cultured in its register, also reflects the present-day use of Minorcan. Finally, he does not conceive of poetry as a simple rhetorical or formal word game but rather believes that the poem must always have something to say and that what is to be conveyed must be powerfully conveyed. In non-fictional prose, he has recently published the work Islandiary, in which he makes clear the values that govern his vocation as a writer.