Josep
Carner
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Josep Carner
(Barcelona, 1884 -- Brussels, 1970), is known as "the prince of Catalan
poets". He was a renovating influence in poetry, prose and the language
itself. He created a new style of political journalism and became a
redoubtable polemicist . With a degree in Law, Philosophy and Letters he
started out in consulates and subsequently became a diplomat working in
Genoa, San José de Costa Rica, le Havre, Hendaya, Beirut, Brussels and
Paris. During the Civil War he took the Republican side and never lived in
Catalonia again. "Els fruits saborosos" (Delicious Fruits), published in
1906, is regarded by the critics as one of the high points of Noucentisme
(a Catalan political and cultural movement at the beginning of the 20th
century), of which he was in the vanguard. His poetic work moved towards
post-symbolism with books such as "Auques i ventalls", "El cor quiet" and
Nabí. He was a notable translator of works by writers such as Dickens,
Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Arnold Bennet, Musset, Lafontaine, Defoe and
Lewis Carroll. When he was only 26 years old, he was proclaimed "Mestre en
Gai Saber" (Master in the Art of Poetry) in the 1910 Jocs Florals
(Literary Contest).
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