Narcís Comadira was born in Girona, Catalonia, Spain, in 1942.
He is a playwright, poet, cultural and literary critic, translator, and painter.
His book of poetry In Quarantine, published in 1990, won the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona, Lletra d’Or and the Premi de la Crítica, and many of his poems have been collected as Formes de l’ombra (Shadow Forms, 2002). His works The Abiding Life, A Day of the Dead, and An Oratory for Josep Pla have reached the Catalan stage.
Comadira is also the author of several books of nonfiction. Without a Shield is a collection of his writings about politics, language, and art published in “El Quadern,” the culture supplement to the newspaper El País, and The Soul of the Poets is a collection of his writings on poetry.
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