Pere Gimferrer

Pere Gimferrer i Torrens ( born June 22, 1945 in Barcelona) is a Catalan writer in Catalan and Spanish. As a poet, essayist and translator, he is one of the most influential Catalan and Spanish authors of the present.

Life and work

Pere Gimferrer occurred in the 1960s, emerged as one of the leading representatives of the novísimos with poems in Spanish. Since 1971, his Catalan poetry appears. With regular articles for newspapers, literary essays, artist monographs, as well as program director of the prestigious publishing house Seix Barral (Barcelona ) as well as a renowned filmmaker Gimferrer has always been renowned as one of the most respected literary figures of Catalonia.

His poems are complex linguistic structures in which overlap the immediacy of sense experience and the theoretical discussion of the possibilities of their placement and mutually dependent. Gimferrers polyphonic, allusive poetry is an attempt to bridge the gap between subject and object by the poetic act. In his essays and monographs he observed critically the cultural events of the past decades and the role of intellectuals in society.

Works (selection)

  • Mensaje del Petrarca ( poems, sp., 1963)
  • Arde el mar ( poems, sp., 1966)
  • La muerte en Beverly Hills ( poems, sp., 1968)
  • Els Miralls ( poems, cat., 1970)
  • Hora foscant ( poems, cat., 1972)
  • Foc cec ( poems, cat., 1973)
  • Antoni Tàpies i l' esperit català ( monograph, cat., 1974)
  • L' espai desert ( poems, cat., 1977)
  • Max Ernst o la dissolució de la identity ( monograph, cat., 1977)
  • Miró: colpir sense nafrar ( monograph, kat, 1978. )
  • Mirall, espai, Aparicions ( poems, cat., 1981)
  • Dietari 1979-1980 ( Diaries, cat., 1981)
  • Segon dietari 1980-1982 ( Diaries, cat., 1982)
  • Fortuny (novel, cat., 1983)
  • Giorgio De Chirico ( monograph, sp., 1988)
  • El vendaval ( poems, cat., 1989)
  • La llum ( poems, cat., 1991)
  • Mascarada ( poems, sp., 1996)
  • Obra completa Vol I- V (1996/ 97)
  • L' agent provocador ( essays, cat., 1998)
  • El diamond dins l' aigua ( poems, cat., 2001)
  • Amor en vilo ( poems, sp., 2006).

Translated into German works

  • Antoni Tapies and the Spirit of Catalonia. Propylaea Verlag, 1982
  • Max Ernst. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1989
  • The mirror. The desolate space ( Els Miralls. L' espai desert ). Kat. / Dt. From the Catalan by Axel Sanjosé. Hanser, Munich 2007

Awards (selection)

  • Premio Nacional de Poesía (1966 )
  • Lletra d' Or ( 1977)
  • Premi Ciutat de Barcelona (1981 and 1989 )
  • Appointment as a member of the Real Academia Española (1985 )
  • Creu de Sant Jordi (1988 ) (Highest Order of Merit of the Catalan government )
  • Premi de la Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (1997)
  • Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas (1998)
  • Appointment as a member of the Reial Academia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona ( 1998)
  • Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana (2000)
  • Premio de Ensayo Octavio Paz ( 2006)
  • Premi Internacional Terenci Moix (2007)
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