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Jordi Valls i Pozo (born in Barcelona, January 25, 1970) is a Catalan poet.
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Jordi Valls i Pozo (born in Barcelona, January 25, 1970) is a Catalan poet.
He has lived in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a city that strongly impressed his poetic trajectory, for the majority of his life.
Jordi Valls presided The Associació de Joves Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (Association of Young Catalan Language Writers) from 1994 to 1996, and is a member of The Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (AELC) and The PEN Club Català (Catalan PEN Club).
Having won The Jocs Florals de la Llengua Catalana in 2006, he was the first author who holds the office of City Poet. Ernest Farrés, author of the anthology called 21 poetes del XXI (2001), states that "In the hands of Jordi Valls poetry is not only subversion but it is most of all the essence of the literary fact".
He has invited to festivals international poetry: Days of poetry and wine, Medana, Slovenia 2008, Encuentro Internacional de Poesía Ciudad de México 2015, Festival International Poetry Bucharest 2017, Festival de Poesía “Luna de Locos” Pereira, Colombia, 2017.
The poetic work of Jordi Valls has been translated into spanish, english, italian, slovenian, brazilian, romanian, occitan.
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