Francesc Trabal
Francesc Trabal | |
|---|---|
| Born | Francesc Trabal i Benessat 5 May 1899 Sabadell, Spain |
| Died | 8 November 1957 (aged 58) Santiago, Chile |
| Other names | Senyor Banyeta |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Years active | 20th century |
| Notable work | Waltz |
Francesc Trabal (5 May 1899 – 8 November 1957) was a Catalan novelist, journalist and humorist.[1]
He was one of the founders of the Colla de Sabadell (the Sabadell Gang), where they started La Mirada publishing house. They promoted Catalan culture, literature and humour using the newspaper El Diari de Sabadell (Sabadell Newspaper) as a platform. He was one of the founders of the El Club dels Novel·listes (Novelists Club), predecessor of today's Institució de les Lletres Catalanes. He went into exile in Chile during the Spanish Civil War, where he continued promoting Catalan culture. He started a Chilean-Catalan Institute for Culture, along with different publishing initiatives.
Works
(All originally written in Catalan)
- L'any que ve (1925).
- L'home que es va perdre (1929).
- Translated to Spanish by Javier Cercas (1992), to French by Marie-José Castaing (2011), and to Italian by Simone Cattaneo (2019).[2]
- Judita (1930).
- Translated to Spanish by Manuel Salvat (1941) and by Montserrat Planas and Marta Pessarrodona (1972), and to French by Montserrat Prudon (1994).
- Quo vadis, Sànchez? with drawings by Valentí Castanys (1931).[3]
- Era una dona com les altres (1932).
- Hi ha homes que ploren perquè el sol es pon (1933).
- Vals (1935).
- Translated to Spanish by Joan Oliver (1945), to English by Martha Tennent (2013), and to Dutch by Frans Oosterholt (2015).[4][5]
- Temperatura (1947).
- Translated to Spanish by himself (1947).
References
- ^ "English". Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (in Catalan). Retrieved 29 May 2021.
- ^ Cercas, Javier (27 January 2014). "The art of losing". EL PAÍS. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
- ^ Alarcon, Moisès Llopis i (2018). "Parodia y deporte en Quo Vadis, Sànchez?, de Francesc Trabal". Nueva Revista del Pacífico (69): 116–133. ISSN 0716-6346.
- ^ Munson, Sam (1 November 2013). "Book Review: 'Waltz' by Francesc Trabal". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
- ^ Llull, Institut Ramon. "Francesc Trabal's WALTZ reviewed in the Wall Street Jou". www.llull.cat. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
External links
- "Francesc Trabal". lletrA-UOC – Open University of Catalonia.