Carles Riba

He worked for a time in the School of Librarianship. In 1922 he travelled to Munich to study under Karl Vossler. He completed his classical education by travelling to Italy and Greece in the 1920s. Because of his association with Republicanism and Catalan nationalism, he was compelled to flee to France, after the victory of Francoist forces at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. He settled in the Château de Roissy, a 17th-century building, which was offered as a refuge for writers. In 1943 he returned to Barcelona, working on translations from classical authors for the Fundació Bernat Metge, of which he eventually became director. He wrote poetic works including Estances (1919 and 1930), Bierville Elegies (Les Elegies de Bierville) (1943), Salvatge Cor (1952), Del joc i del foc (1947), and Esbós per a tres oratoris (1957), as well as translations of Constantine Cavafy, Friedrich Hölderlin, Edgar Allan Poe, Rainer Maria Rilke and Franz Kafka, and classical works including Homer's Odyssey, Plutarch's Parallel Lives, and dramas by Sophocles and Euripides into Catalan. Riba's work has been translated into English by Joan Gili and Pearse Hutchinson. The famous American critic Harold Bloom included Riba's poetry in his selection of the Western canon.

Carles Riba studied at University of Barcelona. The recorded working language is Catalan, Esperanto and Spanish. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are poetry. Residence is recorded at Barcelona and Montpellier. Employment is recorded with University of Barcelona, Autonomous University of Barcelona and Fundació Bernat Metge. Positions recorded include president of PEN català and President of the Philological Section of the Institute for Catalan Studies. Distinctions recorded are Serra d'Or Critics' Prize for Literature and Essays and Premi Concepció Rabell.

• Name — Carles Riba • Birth Name — Carles Riba i Bracons • Born — 23 September 1893 • Birthplace — Barcelona, Spain • Died — 12 July 1959 • Place of death — Barcelona, Spain • Occupation — writer • Notable Works — Bierville Elegies