The Modern Novel

Biography

Agustí Bartra was born in Barcelona in 1908. He grew up in Sabadell.When he returned to Barcelona, he went to work for a textile firm. After winning a writing competition in 1934, he worked for the magazine “Amic” i “Meridià”. His first publication was a collection of short stories followed by a collection of poems. He fought on the Republican side in the Civil War and went into exile in 1939. He ended up in Paris where he met the writer Anna Murià, a fellow exile. They married. They moved first to the Dominican Republic, then to Cuba and finally to Mexico, where he co-founded the magazine Lletres. He is best-known for his poetry collection Els himnes but he also wrote prose fiction. He died in 1982.

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