biography
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Sagarra, Josep Maria de
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pronunciation:
[sagahra]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1894–1961)
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| biography:
| Catalan playwright, poet, and novelist, born in Barcelona, NE Spain. A friend of Alcover, Carner, and Maragall, he remained isolated from the noucentisme of Carner and Guerau de Liost, writing traditional verse such as the lively ‘Balada de Luard, el mariner’. His poems are collected in Primer llibre de poemes (1914), El mal cassador (1916), Cansons d'abril y de novembre (1918), Cansons de taberna e d'oblit (1922), Cansons de rem y de vela (1924), El comte Arnau (1928), and El poema de Nadal (1931). He wrote many plays, among them Juan Enrich (1918), El jardinet de su amor (1922), and Març al Prior (1926). They were Romantic in style, inspired by the Catalan playwright Ignacio Iglesias, and Sagarra's play L'Hostal de la Gloria won the Iglesias prize of 1932. His novels are in the realistic tradition, and include Paulina Buxarne (1919), Els ocells amichs (1923), All i salobre (1929), Café, copa i puro (1929), and Vida privada (1932), winner of that year's Premi Crexells. |
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