Modernisme, also known as Catalan modernism, is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the search of a new entitlement of Catalan culture, one of the most predominant cultures within Spain. Nowadays, it is considered a movement based on the cultural revindication of a Catalan identity. Its main form of expression was in architecture, but many other arts were involved, and especially the design and the decorative arts, which were particularly important, especially in their role as support to architecture. Modernisme was also a literary movement.
Joan Brossa was a Catalan poet, playwright, graphic designer and visual artist. He wrote only in the Catalan language.
Maria Mercè Marçal i Serra was a Catalan poet, professor, writer and translator from Spain.
Eugenio d'Ors i Rovira was a Spanish writer, essayist, journalist, philosopher and art critic. He wrote in both Catalan and Spanish, sometimes under the pseudonym of Xènius.
Carme Riera Guilera is a novelist and essayist. She has also written short stories, scripts for radio and television and literary criticism. She holds a doctorate in Hispanic Philology and is a professor of Spanish literature at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
El Prat de Llobregat, commonly known as El Prat[əl ˈpɾat], is a municipality of Spain located in the comarca of Baix Llobregat in Catalonia. The Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport largely lies within the municipal limits. It is part of the Barcelona metropolitan area.
Canet de Mar is a municipality in the comarca of the Maresme in Catalonia, Spain. It is situated on the coast between Arenys de Mar and Sant Pol de Mar. el Corredor and el Montnegre ranges. It is a tourist centre, but is also known for the cultivation of flowers and strawberries and for having several modernist style buildings. It is served by the main N-II road along the coast, the highway C-32 and by a station on the RENFE railway line. Canet de Mar is in the province of Barcelona (Spain), 43 kilometers from Barcelona.
Joan Maragall i Gorina was a Spanish poet, journalist and translator, the foremost member of the modernisme movement in literature. His manuscripts are preserved in the Joan Maragall Archive of Barcelona.
Josep Guinovart i Bertran was a Spanish painter most famous for his informalist or abstract expressionist work.
Josep Palau i Fabre was a Spanish Catalan poet and writer. He was a representative of Catalan literature during the post-World War period and a world expert on the work of Pablo Picasso.
Joan Margarit i Consarnau was a Spanish poet, architect and professor. Most of his work is written in the Catalan language. He won the 2019 Miguel de Cervantes Prize.
Màrius Serra i Roig is a Spanish writer, journalist, translator and television maker.
Albert Ràfols-Casamada was a Spanish painter, poet and art teacher involved in the vanguard movements of his time. He is considered one of the most important, multifaceted Catalan artists of his time. His artwork began in the post-expressionist, figurative sphere but soon developed into his own abstract style grounded in a poetic rendering of everyday reality.
Joan Prats was a Catalan art promoter and a close friend of Joan Miró
Josep Pedrals i Urdàniz is a Catalan poet and rhapsodist. He is a personality in the world of poetry reading in the Catalan Countries. He has also contributed to various mass media, including the Avui newspaper, Catalunya Ràdio or the magazines El Temps, Paper of Vidre and Bossa Nova. In the music dimension, in 2007 he carried through the hip-hop show Endoll, along with Guillamino. Before he had acted with "Explosión Bikini" and he is currently working with the band Els Nens Eutròfics.
Alfons Borrell i Palazón was a Spanish abstract painter.
David Castillo i Buïls is a Catalan poet, writer, and literary critic. He started out as a poet with counterculture and clandestine publications in the 1970s, although his first published work, a declaration of principles, was the biography of Bob Dylan in 1992. Three years earlier, he had been the anthologist of Ser del segle, which brought together leading voices of the generation of the 1980s. They were followed by a series of poems among them Game over, which won the Premi Carles Riba de poesia|premi Carles Riba. Then, he began a career as a writer with novels like El cel de l'infern and No miris enrere, that was well accepted both by critics and the general public. The first work has been awarded with the premi Crexells for the best Catalan novel of the year 1999. The second has been awarded the Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la of 2001. He has received three times the "Atlàntida awards for journalism" and he has also been awarded the Italian "Tratti Poetry Prize for the best foreign poet" for his anthology of poetry translated into Italian. He has been organizing various poetic cycles and he is founder and director of the Poetry Week in Barcelona since 1997.
Emili Rosales i Castellà is a Catalan writer and editor. He began in the field of poetry, but quickly became a novelist. After publishing three books in four years, he dedicated five years to publish the fifth. Rosales' fifth novel was called La ciutat invisible. The novel's plot alternates between the present day and the reign of Charles III of Spain. The effort was rewarded and La ciutat invisible won the Sant Jordi award and received great reviews. The novel has been translated into Spanish and English.
Albert Forns i Canal is a Catalan journalist, writer and poet. Specialised in digital journalism, has worked in cultural institutions like the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona. Forns stands out for having won the Documenta Prize of narrative with his first novel Albert Serra, where the author questions some appearances of the contemporary art mixing fiction, journalism and essay, and where also appear other Catalan artists out like Miquel Barceló or Salvador Dalí, and other writers like Enrique Vila-Matas The autumn of 2013 Forns received a scholarship from the Institut Ramon Llull to stay at a writers' residence in the State of New York, to prepare his second novel, Jambalaia, rewarded with First Anagrama Prize for Novels in Catalan language. In 2020 he won the Sant Joan Award for his forthcoming novel Abans de les cinc som a casa.
Blai Bonet. Poet, novelist and art critic.
