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Chapters: Víctor Balaguer, Josep Pla, Jaume Cabré, Mercè Canela, Juan Goytisolo, Francesc Eiximenis, Gaziel, Luys D'averçó, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Quim Monzó, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Antoni Rubió I Lluch, Javier Calvo, Pilar Rahola, Àngel Guimerà, Ana María Matute, Francesc Pujols, Josep Torras I Bages, Carme Riera, Jesús Moncada, Manuel de Pedrolo, Carmen Laforet, José Agustín Goytisolo, Josep Lladonosa I Giró, Eduardo Mendoza Ceballos, Juan Marsé, Lola Anglada, Enrique Vila-Matas, Frederic Pujulà I Vallés, Imma Monsó, Jordi Arquer, Eugeni D'ors, Maruja Torres, Najat El Hachmi, Julià Guillamon, Joan Toralles, Jaume Fàbrega, Mercè Company, Jordi Casanovas, Maria Barbal, Terenci Moix, Simona Škrabec, Josep Navarro Santaeulàlia, Antoni Sole, Rafael Argullol, Bernat Metge, List of Catalan-Language Writers, Miquel Barceló, José María Gironella, Annabel Cervantes, Albert Sánchez Piñol, Màrius Serra, Núria Albó, Lluís-Anton Baulenas, Empar Moliner, Miquel Adlert I Noguerol, Anna Genover-Mas, Jaume Subirana, Paulino Masip, Víctor Mora, Sebastià Juan Arbó. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 198. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Josep Pla i Casadevall (March 8, 1897, Palafrugell, Girona - April 23, 1981, Llofriu, Girona) was a Spanish Catalan journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, England, Germany and Russia, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles in Catalan. The use of Catalan and therefore his works however was illegal in post civil war Spain. His figure is somewhat controversial for present day Catalans. On the one hand, his prose is widely acknowledged as the finest standard of contemporary literature in Catalan but, on the other hand, his -nowadays, usually downplayed- ties to Francoist Spain are frowned upon by the current Catalan esta...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4869583 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Josep Pla, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Fernando Villaamil, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Camilo José Cela, Gaziel, Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, García de Silva Figueroa, Ali Bey Al-Abbasi, Alonso Carrió de La Vandera, José Acosta. Excerpt:Ali Bey al-Abbasi Ali Bey al-Abbasi ( Domingo Badia y Leblich ; 1766 1818) was a Spanish explorer in the early 19th century. Notably, he actually witnessed the Wahhabi conquest of Mecca in 1807. Bey travelled in and wrote descriptions of Morocco , Tripoli , Cyprus , Egypt , Arabia , Syria (including modern Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine, then considered part of Syria,) and Turkey during the period of 1803 1807. Ali Bey went to Mecca ostensibly to perform the hajj , giving out that he was a descendant of the Abbassid Caliphs of the West. In conversations with individuals that he met during his travels, he claimed that he was born in Aleppo ; but he was later identified as Domingo Badia y Leblich , a Spanish spy for Joseph Bonaparte . There was much mystery about Ali Bey. Bankes, writing in 1830, roundly asserted that he was a Jew, and many later writers have thought that he was a genuine Muslim of Moroccan origin, but of Spanish education. Although, he alleged to be a Muslim in order to enter places forbidden to non-Muslims, including the Cave of Machpelah at Hebron and Mecca. When he died in Syria in 1818 he was denied a Muslim burial because a cross was found in his vest. This, as suggested by some scholars, is conclusive proof that Ali Bey s claims of Islam were a pretense maintained in order to travel to Mecca and Medina . In 1816, the account of his travels, Travels of Ali Bey : in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey, between the years 1803 and 1807 , was published. References (URLs on... ... Read more

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Chapters: Joanot Martorell, Ramon Llull, Ramon Muntaner, Mercè Rodoreda, Narcís Oller, Josep Pla, Klaus Ebner, Jaume Cabré, Salvador Espriu, Josep Maria Espinàs, Olga Xirinacs Díaz, Gaziel, Quim Monzó, Joan Fuster, Enric Valor I Vives, Àngel Guimerà, Núria Añó, Josep Carner, Manuel de Pedrolo, Gabriel Alomar I Villalonga, Carlos Be, Joan Salvat-Papasseit, Jordi Pigem, Jordi de Manuel, Maria Mercè Marçal, Joan Gili, Josep Lladonosa I Giró, Carles Fages de Climent, Anselm Turmeda, Frederic Pujulà I Vallés, Eugeni D'ors, Carles Riba, Josep Romaguera, Francesc Candel Tortajada, Antoni Maria Alcover I Sureda, Julià Guillamon, Jaume Fàbrega, Sergi Pàmies, Josep Navarro Santaeulàlia, Francesc Fontanella, Santiago Rusiñol, Bernard Desclot, Manuel Sanchis I Guarner, Jordi de Sant Jordi, Isabel-Clara Simó, Albert Salvadó, Baltasar Porcel, Josep Vallverdú, Manuel Milà I Fontanals, Edmond Brazès, Rossend Marsol Clua, Josep Guia, Maria de La Pau Janer, Vicent Partal, Josep Maria Benet I Jornet, Martí Joan de Galba, Joaquim Amat-Piniella, Francesc Vicent Garcia, Pasqual Scanu, Sebastià Juan Arbó. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 190. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ramon Llull (1232 June 29, 1315) (anglicised Raymond Lully, Raymond Lull, in Latin Raimundus or Raymundus Lullus or Lullius, in Spanish Raimundo Lulio) was a Majorcan writer and philosopher. He wrote the first major work of Catalan literature. Recently surfaced manuscripts show him to have anticipated by several centuries prominent work on elections theory. He is sometimes considered a pioneer of computation theory, especially given his influence on Gottfried Leibniz. Llull is well known also as a glossator of Roman Law. Life of Raymond Lull. 14th century manuscript.Llull was born into a wealthy family in Palma, the capital of the new...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=69677 ... Read more

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Chapters: Ccrtv, Catalan-Language Magazines, Catalan Journalists, Newspapers Published in Catalonia, Radio in Catalonia, Josep Pla, Tv3, Joaquim Maria Puyal, Juan Eduardo Cirlot, Josep Maria Espinàs, Televisió de Catalunya, Gaziel, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Quim Monzó, Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals, .Cat, La Vanguardia, Versió Rac 1, El Periódico de Catalunya, Eugeni D'ors, Maruja Torres, Patufet, Francesc Candel Tortajada, Julià Guillamon, K3, Jaume Fàbrega, Sergi Pàmies, El 33, El Temps, 3/24, Catalunya Ràdio, Plats Bruts, Vilaweb, Canal Super3, El Punt, Tv3cat, Avui, El Mundo Deportivo, El 9 Esportiu, Carles Francino, Diari de Girona, Canal 300, Empar Moliner, Samanta Villar, La Campana de Gràcia, Anna Genover-Mas. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 120. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Josep Pla i Casadevall (March 8, 1897, Palafrugell, Girona - April 23, 1981, Llofriu, Girona) was a Spanish Catalan journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, England, Germany and Russia, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles in Catalan. The use of Catalan and therefore his works however was illegal in post civil war Spain. His figure is somewhat controversial for present day Catalans. On the one hand, his prose is widely acknowledged as the finest standard of contemporary literature in Catalan but, on the other hand, his -nowadays, usually downplayed- ties to Francoist Spain are frowned upon by the current Catalan establishment. The son of rural business owners of modest means from Baix Empordà, he obtained his high school diploma in Girona, where, beginning in 1909, he was a boarding student at the Colegio de los Maristas (Marist School). In his last academic year (191213), he had to take his final exams without having taken the cou...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4869583 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Josep Pla, Joaquim Maria Puyal, Juan Eduardo Cirlot, Josep Maria Espinàs, Gaziel, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Quim Monzó, Eugeni D'ors, Maruja Torres, Francesc Candel Tortajada, Julià Guillamon, Jaume Fàbrega, Sergi Pàmies, Carles Francino, Empar Moliner, Samanta Villar, Anna Genover-Mas. Excerpt:Anna Genover-Mas is a Catalan journalist and writer of children's books, one of which won the Vicenta Ferrer Vila de Paterna prize for the best children's literature book of 2007. Genover-Mas was born in Girona in 1963. She studied journalism and worked freelance for Spanish TV. Later she did cinema studies at NYU and at UCLA . She now lives in Barcelona . Several of her books have been translated into English. The Grumpy Gardener , an ecological adventure, was published in April 2008, and two other books, the prize-winning The Hungry Sprout and The Treasure of Pakamotu are forthcoming. Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Carles Francino (Barcelona , 1958) is a Spanish journalist . He started his career in Cadena SER Tarragona . In 1979 he got his first job at COPE Reus as a sports editor. Later, he joined the Tarragona studio of the COPE , which he left in 1987. In 1990 he started in the world of television and he became part of the founding team of Canal+ in Madrid . There he worked as an editor and presented the evening news bulletin, being the presenter of the first program ever broadcast in the history of the channel. In 1994 he returned to Barcelona to work at TV3 , the channel where, for eleven years, he presented the evening news bulletin. While Carles Francino was at the helm, TV3's became the most-viewed news bulletin in the Spanish region of Catalonia , beating all the national Spanish bulletins. His rigour and independence were recognized by th... ... Read more

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Title: Los escritores del derroche.(El inútil de la familia)(Josep Plà)(Reseña de libro)
Author: Rafael Gumucio
Publication: Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2005
Publisher: Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V.
Volume: 7Issue: 74Page: 73(2)

Article Type: Reseña de libro

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