List of Catalans - Writers and Poets

Writers and Poets

  • Ramon Muntaner (c. 1270–1336), soldier and writer of the 14th century
  • Àngel Guimerà, (1845–1924), writer
  • Jacint Verdaguer (1845–1902), poet
  • Narcís Oller (1846–1930), writer
  • Joan Maragall (1860–1911), writer and poet
  • Josep Carner (1884–1970), poet
  • Gaziel (1887–1964), journalist, writer and publisher
  • Carles Riba (1893–1959), poet
  • Josep Pla (1897–1981), writer
  • Mercè Rodoreda (1909–1983), writer
  • Miquel Martí i Pol (1929–2003), writer and poet
  • Pere Calders (1912–1994), writer
  • Salvador Espriu (1913–1985), writer and poet
  • Manuel de Pedrolo (1918–1990), writer
  • Joan Brossa (1919–1998), poet, playwright, plastic artist and graphic designer
  • Quima Jaume i Carbo (1934–1993), Catalan poet
  • Quim Monzó (1952–), writer

Read more about this topic:  List Of Catalans

Famous quotes containing the words writers and/or poets:

    “The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor in depth.”
    —James Thurber (1894–1961)

    “There beneath the Roman ruin where the purple flowers grow,
    Came that “Ave atque Vale” of the poet’s hopeless woe,
    Tenderest of Roman poets nineteen hundred years ago,”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)