Joan Triadú
Joan Triadu (July 30, 1921 - 30 September 2010) was a Catalan historian, academic and bestselling author.
Career
He was one of the founders of the Drama Association of Barcelona and Catalan reader at the University of Liverpool (1948-50).[1]
He contributed to magazines Ariel , Bridge Blue , New Life and Serra d'Or and in the newspaper today .[2]
Awards and scholarships
In 1978 he was elected an associate member of the Institute of Catalan Studies. Ultra mentioned awards, also won the Award of Honor Jaume I (1982), the Cross of St. George (1982), the prize for the work of Atlantis literary critic (1987), the Prize of Honor of Catalan Letters ( 1992) and the Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia (2001).[3]
Bibliography
He wrote Endymion (1948), poetry highly symbolic and an anthology of Catalan poetry, 1900-1950 (1951), militant and polemical tone, in part a reaction against certain noucentistes. He is also the author of an anthology of Catalan storytellers (1951), with critical comments, and to Anthology of Catalan lyric poetry (Oxford 1953), an extensive introduction, rebuilt in Panorama poetry Catalan (1953). Friend and disciple of Carles Riba, with poetry by Carles Riba (1954) and Understanding Carles Riba (1993) disseminates the aesthetics and methodology review. Aside from the brief biography Oller (1955) and prose Collsacabra (1956), he published the collections critics: Catalan literature and the people (1961) Read how to live (1963) A culture without freedom (1978), The Catalan postwar novel (1982), Catalan poetry of the war (1985) and the city of books (1999). Eduard Artells edited three volumes of Reading chosen (1962-69). He translated the Sonnets (1968) Shakespeare and Olympic (1963) of Pindar, which also made version of the Odes for the Foundation Bernat Metge (1957 and 1959).[4]
Author volumes memoir Days of Memory 1938-1940. Diary of a teacher teenager (2002 Trias Fargas Foundation Awards 2001 Critics Serra d'Or 2002) and Memories of a Golden Age (2008 Serra d'Or Critics Award 2009), took care of editing poetic anthologies of various authors (C. Riba, J. Oliver and J. Sebastian Pons) and 100 poems must know Catalan (2004). In 2009 he published texts and pretexts pedagogy. 1938-2008 and correspondence Pere Calders dear friend. Letters and texts.[5]