Joan Ferraté i Soler
Joan Ferraté i Soler, born 1924 in Reus (Catalunya), died 2003 in Barcelona (Catalunya), was a Catalan poet, critic and translator. He studied classical languages at the University of Barcelona, and lived abroad for a several years, teaching in Cuba and then in Canada at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He served as the literary director of Seix Barral between 1970 and 1973.
Joan Ferraté i Soler
- Name
- Joan Ferraté i Soler
- Occupation
- Poet translator
- Born
- 1924 · Reus.
- Died
- 2003 · Barcelona.
- Nationality
- Spain
- Fields
- Spanish literature · literary theory · poetry · translation into Spanish
- Languages
- Catalan · Spanish · Modern Greek
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Ferrate has published widely across many genres: poetry, essays, biography, literary criticism. He won the 1979 Premio Crítica Serra d’Or for his volume of Cavafy translations, titled Vuitanta-vuit poemes.
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Joan Ferraté i Soler, a writer, was born in 1924 and died in 2003. The place of death of Joan Ferraté i Soler is recorded as Reus by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and as Barcelona by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The birth is recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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• Name — Joan Ferraté i Soler • Occupation — Poet translator
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He is the brother of the famed Catalan poet Gabriel Ferrater. He has one daughter, Amalia Zeta.
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In January 2018 the University of Girona officially opened a reading room dedicated to Joan’s library and featuring some personal effects. These were donated to the University by his daughter Amalia Zeta.
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