Pere Gimferrer

Pere Gimferrer i Torrens (born June 22, 1945 in Barcelona ) is a Catalan writer in Catalan and Spanish. As a poet , essayist and translator , he is one of the most influential Catalan and Spanish authors of the present.

life and work

Pere Gimferrer emerged in the 1960s as one of the leading representatives of the Novísimos with poetry in Spanish. His Catalan poetry has also been published since 1971. With regular articles for daily newspapers, literary essays, artist monographs and as the program manager of the renowned publishing house Seix Barral (Barcelona) and as a proven cineast, Gimferrer has been one of the most recognized literary personalities in Catalonia for decades.

His poems are complex linguistic structures in which the immediacy of the sensual experience and the theoretical discussion of the possibilities of conveying it are superimposed and mutually dependent. Gimferrer's polyphonic, allusive poetry attempts to overcome the gap between subject and object through the poetic act. In his essays and monographs he critically observes the cultural events of the past decades and the role of intellectuals in society.

Works (selection)

Mensaje del Tetrarca (Poems, sp., 1963)
Arde el mar (poems, sp., 1966)
La muerte en Beverly Hills (Poems, sp., 1968)
Els miralls (poems, cat., 1970)
Hora foscant (poems, cat., 1972)
Foc cec (poems, cat., 1973)
Antoni Tàpies i l'esperit català (monograph, cat., 1974)
L'espai desert (poems, cat., 1977)
Max Ernst o la dissolució de la identitat (monograph, cat., 1977)
Miró: colpir sense nafrar (monograph, cat., 1978)
Mirall, espai, aparicions (poems, cat., 1981)
Dietari 1979-1980 (diaries, cat., 1981)
Segon dietari 1980-1982 (diaries, cat., 1982)
Fortuny (novel, cat., 1983)
Giorgio De Chirico (monograph, sp., 1988)
El vendaval (poems, cat., 1989)
La llum (poems, cat., 1991)
Mascarada (poems, sp., 1996)
Obra completa vol. I – V (1996/97)
L'agent provocador (essays, cat., 1998)
El diamant dins l'aigua (poems, cat., 2001)
Amor en vilo (Poems, sp., 2006).

Works translated into German

Antoni Tapies and the spirit of Catalonia . Propylaea Verlag, 1982
Max Ernst . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1989
The mirror. The desolate space (Els miralls. L'espai desert). Cat./Dt. Translated from Catalan by Àxel Sanjosé . Edition Lyrik Kabinett at Hanser, Munich 2007

Awards (selection)

Premio Nacional de Poesía (1966)
Lletra d'Or (1977)
Premi Ciutat de Barcelona (1981 and 1989)
Appointment as a member of the Real Academia Española (1985)
Creu de Sant Jordi (1988) (Highest Order of Merit of the Catalan Government)
Premi de la Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (1997)
Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas (1998)
Appointment as a member of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona (1998)
Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana (2000)
Premio de Ensayo Octavio Paz (2006)
Premi Internacional Terenci Moix (2007)

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personal data
SURNAME	Gimferrer, Pere
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gimferer i Torrens, Pere (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Catalan writer, poet, essayist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	June 22, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Barcelona