country: Catalonia

Engagement Ring

How quickly that dark line gets longer, how quickly the snuffed-out candles proliferate. CAVAFY, “Candles” (Tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard)   “It used to be that wars would thin the herd. Now that there’s peace, disasters help a little by killing some people off. Don’t look at me like that—it’s just the way it […]

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Gottfried Heinrich’s Dream

It is music: it has come from a heart. J.S.B. At four in the afternoon the old man sat up in bed and said Kaspar, son, where are you? B flat, A, D flat, B, C. The phrase had returned suddenly to his memory. Hearing how poor Gottfried played the clavier had always made him […]

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Jordi Nopca

Jordi Nopca is a Catalan journalist, writer and translator, and the current editor of Ara newspaper, including its literary supplement – Llegim. Born in Barcelona in 1983, Nopca studied Journalism and Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature. Since 2006 he has published articles for Mondosonoro, Benzina, Sortim, Què fem?, Go Mag and Time Out Barcelona. […]

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Jaume Cabré

Jaume Cabré (Barcelona, 1947) is a Catalan novelist, screenwriter, and philologist. He graduated in Catalan philology from the University of Barcelona. He is now a Professor at the University of Leida and a member of the institute of Catalan studies. Cabré is considered to be one of the most important authors of contemporary Catalan literature, […]

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