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Xavier Farré

Polish Catalan Polish Spanish

A poet and translator of Polish and Slovenian literature into Catalan and Spanish. He has published seven volumes of poetry and a collection of essays, Auditorium in Görlitz, about poetry and its connections with identity, exile and the Holocaust. He has translated books by Czesław Miłosz, Adam Zagajewski, Zbigniew Herbert, Olga Tokarczuk, Wioletta Grzegorzewska, Julia Hartwig, Stanisław Lem, Tomasz Różycki and other authors. He has also translated plays by Krystian Lupa, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Ingmar Villqist and Dorota Masłowska, and has also translated from Slovenian (including Aleš Debeljak, Lojze Kovačič, Tomaž Šalamun). He is the laureate of the Jaume Vidal Acovera for the Catalan translation of a selection of poems by Czesław Miłosz and the winner of the Jordi Domènech Award for the Catalan translation of Zbigniew Herbert’s Pan Cogito.

Translations

  • Zagajewski, Adam, Anteny / Antenas. 2007.
  • Zagajewski, Adam, Ziemia ognista / Tierra del fuego. 2005.
  • Zagajewski, Adam, Ziemia ognista / Terra del foc. 2005. (Catalan edition)
  • Zagajewski, Adam, Pragnienie / Deseo. 2006.
  • Burzyńska, Anna, Mężczyźni na skraju połamania nerwowego / Najwięcej samobójstw zdarza się w niedzielę / Hombres al borde de un ataque de nervios / La mayoría de suicidios pasa en domingo. Trans. with: Joanna Bielak, 2006.
  • Schulz, Bruno, Wiosna / Primavera. 2008.
  • Miłosz, Czesław, Traversant fronteres (antologia poètica 1945–2000). 2006.
  • Villqist, Ingmar, Noc Helvera / La nit de Helver.
  • Laks, Szymon, Gry oświęcimskie / Melodías de Auschwitz. 2008.
  • Herbert, Zbigniew, Martwa natura z wędzidłem / Naturaleza muerta con brida. 2008.
  • Herbert, Zbigniew, Barbarzyńca w ogrodzie / Un bárbaro en el jardín. 2010.

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