biography
| name: |
Oliver i Sallares, Joan
|
| |
pseudonym Pere Quart
|
pronunciation:
[olivair ee salahr
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1899–1986)
|
| biography:
| Poet and playwright in Catalan, born in Sabadell, Catalunya, NE Spain. He edited the Diari de Sabadell but was exiled after the Civil War, spending one year in France and seven in Chile before returning to Barcelona, where he worked as literary editor for a publisher. His poetry is often bitter, satirizing the bourgeois way of life in popular speech influenced by Brecht. His original plays in Catalan number half a dozen, and he has translated Molière, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, and Beckett. His books of poetry include Les decapitacions (1934), Bestiari (1937), Saló de tardor (1947), Poemes de Pere Quart (1949), Terra de naufragis (1956), Vacances pagades (1960, possibly his best book), and Dotze aiguafort de Granyer (1962). An anthology, Obra de Pere Quart, appeared in 1963, followed by Circumstàncies (1968). |
|
|
