Blai Bonet

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Blai Bonet
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Born
Blai Bonet i Rigo

1926
Santayí
Died1997
Mallorca
Occupationwriter and poet
Notable work
El Mar

Blai Bonet (Santanyí, Mallorca 1926 - 1997). Poet, novelist and art critic.

Bonet was an author with a trajectory marked by personal religious conflict and tuberculosis. His novel El Mar (The Sea), published in 1958, generated quite a stir. Afterwards, in 1962 his collections of poems L'Evangeli segons un de tants (The Gospel According to One of Many) wad awarded with the , but it wasn't published due to Spanish Francoist censorship, delaying it for more than five years.[1] In 1990, he was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi by the Catalan Government.

He was a member of the Association of Catalan Language Writers.[2] He was a key participant in the resurgence of Catalan literature in the 1960s. His experimental novel The Sea can be read in English thanks to Dalkey Archive Press.

Works[]

Poetry[]

  • Quatre poemes de Setmana Santa (1950)
  • Entre el coral i l'espiga (1952)
  • Cant espiritual (1953, )
  • Comèdia (1968, Premi de la Crítica 1969)
  • L'Evangeli segons un de tants (1967, 1965)
  • Els fets (1974)
  • Has vist, algun cop, Jordi Bonet a ca n'Amat a l'ombra? (1976)
  • Cant de l'arc (1979)
  • El poder i la verdor (1981)
  • Teatre del gran verd (1983)
  • El jove (1987, , Premi Nacional de la Crítica i de Poesia by Generalitat de Catalunya)
  • Nova York (1991, 1992)
  • Sonets (2000)

Novel[]

  • El mar (1958, Premi Joanot Martorell 1956) published in English by Dalkey Archive Press
  • Haceldama (1959)
  • Judes i la primavera (1963, Premi Ciutat de Barcelona)
  • Míster Evasió (1969)
  • Si jo fos fuster i tu et diguessis Maria (1972)

References[]

  1. ^ "Self-Portrait - Asymptote". www.asymptotejournal.com. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
  2. ^ "English". Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (in Catalan). Retrieved 2020-12-21.
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