biography
| name: |
Castelló Guasch, Joan
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pronunciation:
[kastelyoh guash]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1911–84)
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| biography:
| Folklorist, born in Ibiza, Spain. From a humble working class background, he left school in 1921 and began selling newspapers. In 1924 he joined the Diario de Ibiza as a typesetter, where he met Isidor Macabich, at that time its chief editor. He co-founded the Agrupación Gráfica de Ibiza, and from 1931 published in El Obrero Balear several articles pertaining to social welfare. In 1948 with Ibiza y Formentera (índice para el viajero) he began the publication of tourist guidebooks, well-documented from the historical and cultural point of view. In 1952 he published his first folkloric book Supersticiones ibicencas and then his first collection of traditional stories, Rondaies eivissenques (1953). He contributed articles to many journals and newspapers often under the pseudonym Joan d'Aifa. In 1977 he participated in the Congrés de Cultura Catalana in the areas of anthropology and folklore but, a year later, he suffered a stroke from which he never fully recovered. His Rondaies d'Evissa was awarded the Costa i Llobera and Joan Alcover Prize for prose narrative in 1954. |
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