Name Pep Coll Role Writer | Books El pont de Mahoma, Nius | |
Awards Girona Literary Award: Ramon Muntaner Prize Profiles | ||
Josep Coll i Martí (born October 16, 1949 in Pessonada, Conca de Dalt, Pallars Jussà (Catalonia)), better known as Pep Coll, is a Catalan writer. Prolific author, he has cultivated all literary genres, and even newspaper (working with newspapers Segre, El Periódico and the magazine Descobrir Catalunya). His life and literary world are Pyrenees, which have become a legendary universe. It has been translated into Spanish and Basque. In addition a writer, he has been teacher of language and literature, and he is a great lover of the mountain.
Contents
- Early life
- Professional experience
- Experience as a writer
- Novel
- Short story
- Books for children and youth
- Theatre
- Essay and literary criticism
- Translated works
- Awards
- References
Early life
Josep Coll i Martí comes from a humble family and scarce resources. He studied the basic humanities at the seminary of La Seu d'Urgell and continued his studies at the University of Barcelona where he graduated in philosophy and letters.
Professional experience
His beginnings as a teacher come from La Pobla de Segur (Pallars Jussà) where he was for five years. At that time he realized the closest interest to the country's language, Catalan, in opposition to the philosophical question of which he was disillusioned in the last years career. Once he approved his examinations, he decided to start a new path in the city of Lleida, because the previous lived experience in Barcelona, as student, was not very comforting.In the city of Lleida he will work as a teacher of Catalan Language and Literature at secondary school IES Màrius Torres since 1980–81 to 2009–10.
Experience as a writer
Throughout these 31 years, he has combined teaching with writing profession together also collaborating with various areas of communication. In all these activities, that he exercises routinely, the vernacular element is the dedication and dissemination of popular culture and the effort to make it known. Nowadays, he is dedicated, body and soul, to the task of writing and looking for new travel recreate new stories.
He is president of the Center for Studies of Pallars, he is also a scholar about Pallars Catalan dialect and connoisseur of traditional narratives from Pyrenees that he recreates and synthesizes in the course of different genres that are used. He has also been awarded several prizes, notably the Catalan Critics Award by his novel Dos taüts negres i dos de blancs.
He transfers the passion for the mountains to the story of his works, turning them into an informative, indigenous and historical reading to the reader.
Novel
Short story
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