Salvador Espriu
| Salvador Espriu | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 10, 1913 Santa Coloma de Farners, Catalonia, Spain |
| Died | February 22, 1985 (aged 71) Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Occupation | Playwright, poet, novelist |
| Literary movement | Noucentisme, satire |
| Notable works | Ariadna al Laberint Grotesc, Cementiri de Sinera, Una altra Fedra, si us plau |
Salvador Espriu i Castelló (Catalan pronunciation: [səɫβəˈðo əsˈpɾiw]) (July 10, 1913 – February 22, 1985) was a Catalan poet who wrote most of his works in Catalan.
Espriu was born in Santa Coloma de Farners, Catalonia. He was the son of an attorney. He spent his childhood between his home town, Barcelona, and Arenys de Mar, a village on the Maresme coast. At the age of sixteen, he published his first book, Israel, written in Spanish. In 1930 he entered the University of Barcelona, where he studied law and ancient history. While traveling (1933) to Egypt, Greece and Palestine, he became acquainted with the countries that originated the great classical myths, and which would be so influential in his work.
During the Spanish civil war he was mobilised and served in military accounting.
Translated into several languages, Espriu's work has obtained international recognition, most notably the Montaigne prize (1971). He was also given the Award of Honour of Catalan Letters (1972), the Ignasi Iglesias prize (1980), the City of Barcelona Prize (1982) and the Gold Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya (1982). He was awarded honorary doctor's degrees by the universities of Toulouse and Barcelona.
He died in Barcelona in 1985, and was buried in the Arenys de Mar cemetery, which gives name to his poem Cementiri de Sinera.
In 1931 he published El doctor Rip, and the following year, Laia, novels that move away from the then-fashionable theoretical formulas of the aesthetics of the Catalan Noucentisme movement.
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