Fèlix Cucurull

Fèlix Cucurull also Fèlix Cucurull i Tey (born January 12, 1919 in Arenys de Mar , Catalonia ; † February 4, 1996 ibid) was a Spanish author , historian and politician .

Life

In 1936, Cucurull was employed by the Estat Català and was responsible for propaganda in his home town of Maresme . In 1938 he enlisted in the republican army and was used in Valencia in the Exèrcit de Llevant . He worked there for the culture militia . After the end of the Spanish Civil War he was a member of the Front Nacional de Catalunya (FNC) and its board of directors until 1968. In these decades he devoted himself to poetry and wrote short stories and works about the Iberian Peninsula and Catalonia. He also wrote articles for magazines and newspapers such as Tele-Estel , Serra d'Or and Avui .

In the last years of Franco's dictatorship and the years after Franco's death, he joined various Catalan political groups and ran in the elections to the Spanish parliament in 1979, but without success. The years up to his death he worked for the democracy, culture and independence of his homeland from Spain.

Awards

• 1935: Jocs florals in Barcelona.
• 1979: Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences for his book Dos pobles ibèrics .
• 1980: Important Person of Culture of the Year honored by the União Brasileira de Escritores .
• 1985: Creu de Sant Jordi Prize from the Generalitat de Catalunya .

Publications

• Vida terrena , poems. 1948; New edition: 1977.
• L'últim combat , narrative. 1954.
• El temps que se'ns escapa , poems. 1959.

political books

• Dos pobles ibèrics . 1967.
• Orígens i evolució del federalisme català . 1970.
• Panoràmica del nacionalisme català . 1975.
• Catalunya republicana i autònoma (1931-1936) . Edicions de la Magrana, Barcelona 1984, ISBN 84-7410-154-9 .

literature

• Imma Albó: Felix Cucurull . Fundació Josep Irla, Barcelona 2010, ISBN 978-84-6134-955-5 .

Web links

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