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Joana

by Joan Margarit

Premio Cervantes · 2019 · Winner
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About This Book

A collection of poems written for and about the poet's daughter Joana, who had Down syndrome and died in 1998, considered among the most moving elegies in Catalan literature.

About the Author

Joan Margarit was a Catalan poet and architect born in 1938 in Sanaüja, Lleida. He is considered the greatest Catalan-language poet of the second half of the twentieth century, and one of the great European poets of his era. He worked for many years as a professor of structures at the Barcelona School of Architecture while simultaneously building one of the most important bodies of poetry in any Iberian language. Read more →

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