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Chapters: Mercè Canela, Quim Monzó, Juan Boscán Almogáver, Josep Carner, Josep Palau I Fabre, Manuel de Pedrolo, Maria Mercè Marçal, Joan Gili, Feliu Formosa, Frederic Pujulà I Vallés, Carles Riba, Sergi Pàmies, Joan Vinyoli, Juan Mascaró, Francesc Cambó, Rafael Santos Torroella, Anna Aguilar-Amat. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 58. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mercè Canela (Sant Guim de Freixenet, la Segarra, 1956) is a Catalan writer and translator. She studied archaeology in Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where she worked as a librarian later before she went to Brussels to work as a documentalist in the European Union. She started writing when she was very young, and she considers herself basically a writer. In 1976, the publishing house La Galera published one of her books for teenagers De qui és el bosc?, and she won the Josep M. Folch i Torres award with Lescarabat verd. She published several childrens and teenagers novels later and she has won several prices for them. In 1984, she was included in the Honour List of IBBY with Asperú, joglar embruixat. She has translated to Catalan several works in German, French and Italian. Besides, she published: Un passeig pel Poble Espanyol (Beta, Barcelona, 1998), a book which explains the history of Poble Espanyol, in Montjuïc, in Barcelona. In 1980, she was a member of Cavall Fort magazine, where she is director since 1998. She is also director in El Tatano publications. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11847719 ... Read more

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Chapters: Lluís Companys, Joan Reventós I Carner, Josep Irla I Bosch, Ernest Benach I Pascual, Joan Rigol I Roig, List of Presidents of the Parliament of Catalonia. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lluís Companys i Jover (June 21, 1882 October 14, 1940) was the 123 President of Catalonia from 1934 and during the Spanish Civil War. He was a lawyer and leader of the political party Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya. Exiled after the war, he was captured and handed over by the Nazi secret police, the Gestapo, to the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, who had him executed by firing squad in 1940. Companys is the only incumbent president of a region in Europe to have been executed, and seventy years later the Spanish state has not yet annulled the council of war which sentenced him. Companys was the son of farmers Josep Companys and Maria Lluïsa de Jover. After getting his law degree from the Universitat de Barcelona, Companys participated in the political life of Catalonia from a young age. In 1906, as a result of the military burning the writings of Catalan newspapers Cu-Cut! and La Veu de Catalunya, and after the passing of the Ley de Jurisdicciones ("Law of Jurisdictions"), which made speech against Spain and its symbols a criminal offence, he participated in the creation of Solidaridad Catalana. Later, he became affiliated to the ephemeral Unió Federal Nacionalista Republicana, of which he was president of the youth section. He was investigated for his intense youth activities and was jailed fifteen times, being classified after the Tragic Week of Barcelona as a "dangerous individual" in police records. With Francesc Layret, Companys represented the left-wing labor faction of the Partit Republicà Català (Catalan Republican Party), for whic...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=68297 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Enrique de Villena, Mercè Canela, Quim Monzó, Andrés Nin, Josep Carner, Josep Palau I Fabre, Jesús Moncada, Manuel de Pedrolo, Maria Mercè Marçal, José Agustín Goytisolo, Feliu Formosa, Frederic Pujulà I Vallés, Carles Riba, Sergi Pàmies, Joan Vinyoli, Simona Škrabec, Francesc Cambó, Rafael Santos Torroella, Softcatalà. Excerpt:Andrés Nin i Pérez Andrés Nin Pérez , (Catalan : Andreu Nin i Pérez ; February 4, 1892, El Vendrell , Tarragona June 20, 1937, near Madrid ) was a Spanish Communist revolutionary. Early life Born to a poor family (his father was a shoemaker and his mother was a peasant), Nin moved to Barcelona shortly before World War I ; he taught briefly in a secular , anarchist school, but soon became a journalist and activist. In 1917 he joined the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). Nin became a leader of the Spanish workers' movement, and was among the founders of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE). He consequently worked for the Comintern and Red International of Labour Unions (RILU or Profintern) in the Soviet Union and was on the staff of Leon Trotsky for a period. While in Russia, he was won to the Left Opposition which confronted Joseph Stalin 's ascending faction within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . When he returned to Spain, Nin was instrumental in forming the Communist Left of Spain (ICE) the self-designated Leninist group affiliated to the International Left Opposition (ILO). However, the ICE was a small group and largely isolated. Nin had a number of disagreements with Trotsky in this period, specifically when Trotsky advised the ICE leader that entry into the Spanish Socialist Youth would augment the forces at their disposal, while Nin advocated forming of a united party with the Workers and Peasants Bloc (BOC), a group coming out of th... ... Read more