Agustí Bartra

Agustí Bartra i Lleonart (Catalan pronunciation: [əɣusˈti ˈβaɾtɾəj ʎə.uˈnaɾt]; 1908 – 1982)^[1] was a Spanish poet, writer, translator and University Professor in Catalan language.

Biography

Descendant of a country family, he passed part of his childhood in Sabadell, although he had been born in the city of Barcelona 8 November 1908. When his family came back to Barcelona he entered to work in a textile warehouse. In year 1934 won a competition of social stories, and short time afterwards he started to collaborate in magazines such as Friend and Meridian.^[2]

He took part in the

In 1970 they returned to Catalonia; they settled in the city of Terrassa, where he died on 8 July 1982.

In year 1973 his work Els himnes (The hymns) was rewarded with the Prize Carles Riba of poetry, and in 1981 with the Cross of Sant Jordi (granted by the Generalitat de Catalunya). In 1982, Haikús d'Arsinal was rewarded with the Prize of the Criticism of Catalan poetry.

References

External links

• "Agustí Bartra". lletrA-UOC – Open University of Catalonia.

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