Sebastià Juan Arbó

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Sebastià Juan Arbó , (born October 28, 1900 in Sant Carles de la Ràpita ( Montsià , Spain ), † January 2, 1984 in Barcelona ) was a Catalan novelist and dramaturge. He wrote his works in Catalan and Spanish .

In 1948 he won the prestigious Premio Nadal .

Sebastià Juan Arbó was an honorary member of the Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana , the association of writers in the Catalan language.

life and work

Born into a family of landless farmers, he moved to Amposta with his parents at the age of eight . As a twelve year old he worked in an office. In 1927 he moved to Barcelona, ​​where he began his writing career; first as a journalist for the newspapers La Vanguardia and ABC . In 1931 he published his first novel L'inútil combat (The vain fight).

In 1932, Terres de l'Ebre , his most famous work, is published. The novel describes the situation of farmers in the Ebro Delta; They live there, forgotten and modest, cultivating ungrateful, hard ground reserved for the dead.

In 1933 he published Notes d'un estudiant que va morir boig and in 1935 Camins de nit .

During the Spanish Civil War and the first years after the war, it became quiet around him until his novel Tino Costa was finally published in Catalan and Spanish in 1947 . In 1946 he already published a biography of Cervantes in Catalan.

From 1948 he wrote mainly in Spanish. His work Sobre las piedras grises , with which he won the Premio Nadal , the oldest literary prize awarded in Spain, is one of them, as is Martín Caretas ( 1959 ). In his later years he returned to publications in Catalan: Narracions d'el Delta ( 1965 ), L'espera ( 1948 ), La masia ( 1975 ).

He died of a heart attack on January 2, 1984.

Awards

Works

Novellas

  • L'inútil combat . Badalona: Proa, 1931 (Barcelona: Proa, 1969 ).
  • Notes d'un estudiant que va morir boig , 1933 . (alternative title Hores en Blanc ).
  • Camins de nit . Badalona: Proa, 1935 (Barcelona: Edicions 62 , 1987).
  • Hores en blanc . Barcelona: Llibreria Catalònia, 1935 (Barcelona: Laia, 1983; Barcelona: Edicions 62, 1991).
  • La ciutat maleida . Barcelona: Llibreria Catalonia, 1935.
  • Terres de l'Ebre . Barcelona: Llibreria Catalònia, 1936 (Barcelona: Selecta, 1955; Barcelona: Edicions 62, 1980). (Translated into Italian and Dutch, French, German and Dutch)
  • Tino Costa . Barcelona: Àncora, 1947 .
  • Sobre las piedras grises . Barcelona: Destino, 1949 ; Barcelona: Destino, 1973 (5ª ed). Guanyadora del Premi Nadal.
  • Verdaguer: el poeta, el sacerdot i el món . Barcelona: Aedos, 1952 .
  • Martín de Caretas . 1955 - 1959
  • Los hombres de la tierra y el mar . Barcelona: Llibreria Editorial Argos, 1961 . (1965 ??)
  • L'hora negra seguit de divertiments: la nit de Sant Joan . Barcelona: Selecta, 1961.
  • Narracions del Delta . Barcelona: Selecta, 1965
  • Obra catalana completa, I. Novelles de l'Ebre . Barcelona: Edicions 62, 1966 .
  • L'espera . Barcelona: Club Editor, 1968 (1965 ??)
  • Obras selectas . Barcelona: AHR, 1973
  • La Masia . Barcelona: Selecta, 1975 (Barcelona: Orbis, 1984 )
  • La tempestad . Esplugues de Llobregat: Plaza & Janés, 1978 .
  • El segundo del Apocalipsis . Esplugues de Llobregat: Plaza & Janés, 1981
  • Memorias: los hombres de la ciudad . Barcelona: Planeta, 1982 .
  • Obra catalana completa (a cura d'Emili Rosales). Barcelona: Columna, 1992 - 1993 (3 by volume).
  • Viatge a l'Ebre . Barcelona: Columna-Tresmall, (1997).

Plays

  • La ciutat maleida . Barcelona: Llibreria Catalònia, (1935)
  • Despertary . 1936
  • Nausica . Barcelona: La Rosa dels Vents, (1937).

poetry

Biographies

  • La vida trágica de Mosèn Jacinto Verdaguer . 1951 Barcelona: Planeta / Aedos, 1970
  • Pío Baroja y su tiempo . Barcelona: Planeta, 1969 .
  • Cervantes (hombre y época) . Barcelona: 1948; Barcelona: Planeta, 1971 .

filming

Camins de nit was made into a film in 1935 under the title Night Track .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ obituary of Sebastián Juan Arbó, El País, 03-01-1984 edition
  2. ↑ Historical Archives of the City of Barcelona. Fons 6B-Jocs Florals, Sèrie III-Pliques, any 1929, document 11
  3. ↑ Historical Archives of the City of Barcelona. Fons 6B-Jocs Florals, Sèrie III-Pliques, any 1929, document 20
  4. ↑ Historical Archives of the City of Barcelona. Fons 6B-Jocs Florals, Sèrie III-Pliques, any 1929, document 41
  5. ↑ Historical Archives of the City of Barcelona. Fons 6B-Jocs Florals, Sèrie III-Pliques, any 1929, document 92
  6. ↑ Historical Archives of the City of Barcelona. Fons 6B-Jocs Florals, Sèrie III-Pliques, any 1930, document 308
  7. ↑ http://www.escriptors.cat/autors/juanarbos/pagina.php?id_sec=2834

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personal data
SURNAME Arbó, Sebastià Juan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Sant Carles de la Ràpita ( Montsià , Spain )
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1984
Place of death Barcelona , Spain