Joan Sales i Vallès
Catalan writer, translator and publisher
Joan Sales i Vallès (1912–1983) was a Catalan writer, translator and publisher, who promoted Catalan culture under the Franco dictatorship. His best-known novel and major testament is Uncertain Glory (Catalan: Incerta Glòria).2
From Wikipedia’s article on Joan Sales i Vallès (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born Nov 19, 1912, died Nov 12, 1983.1
Companies
- Club EditorFounder12
Career
Occupation: writer, poet, businessperson, translator, poet lawyer, publisher, editor.4
- Date not recordedFounded Club Editor3
Known for: Uncertain glory.5
Personal life
Politics
Sales was a convinced Christian Democrat and committed Catalan nationalist. Following his return from exile, he joined the Democratic Union of Catalonia (Catalan: Unió Democràtica de Catalunya). He explained that he became a Catholic during the Civil War, having seen so many corpses and that the UDC was the only party without any blood on its hands. He conceived his masterpiece, Uncertain Glory, as a testament to his dead comrades: "I sought to bear witness to that which I had experienced, against the black lie - the Falangists - and also the red lie - the Falangists first and then the Communists."
From Wikipedia’s article on Joan Sales i Vallès (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Awards
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Sources
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- 1WikidataJoan Sales i Vallès on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaJoan Sales i Vallès on Wikipedia
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- 11Wikidataaward, as reported
- 12WikidataClub Editor, Founder