Clementina Arderiu

Clementina Arderiu
Occupation	Poet

Grave of Arderiu and Riba in Barcelona

Clementina Arderiu (Barcelona, 1889–1976) was a Spanish poet who wrote in the Catalan language.

Influences on her work included the Catalan language writer Josep Carner, and her husband, the poet Carles Riba.

Her poems tend to idealize daily life.

Works

• Cançons i elegies, 1916
• L'alta llibertat, 1920
• Poemes, 1936
• Sempre i ara, 1946, Joaquim Folguera prize
• Poesies completes, 1952
• És a dir, 1968, Óssa Menor prize and Lletra d'Or prize
• L’esperança encara, 1968

Recording from the Library of Congress

Clementina Arderíu reading twelve poems from her collected volumes, Poesia completas,1952.[1]

References

• Clementina Arderiu, at lletrA, a Catalana literature space at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya