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Caterina Albert i Paradís, better known by her pen name Víctor Català, was a Catalan writer in Catalan and Spanish who participated in the Modernisme movement and was the author of one of the signature works of the genre, Solitud (Solitude) (1905). Her literary skill was first recognized in 1898, when she received the Jocs Florals prize; soon thereafter, she began using the pseudonym Victor Català…
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culture · Catalan writer · writer · sculptor · illustrator · painter · playwright · also Caterina Albert, Víctor Català, Victor Catala, Catalina Albert Paradís, Caterina Albert (i) Paradís, Víctor Catalá
Born 11 September 1869 · Died 27 January 1966 · Q2914475
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“Then our Musalman brothers, the Pathans, would come out as a swarm of locusts from their mountain valleys, and make rivers of blood to flow from their frontier in the north to the extreme end of Bengal”
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“My wish is in accord with the will of God,”
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“Judaism, Human Values and the Jewish State”
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“Prophetic Tradition and the Liberation of Women: Promise and Betrayal”
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Died 1966-01-27.
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And is interred in the Cementiri Vell de l’Escala
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Career landmark: member of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona (1923–1966).
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Albert published a collection of narratives, La Mare Balena, it was not until the end of noucentism in the mid-1920s that she released her second, and last, novel, Un film ("A Film") (1926)
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Awarded Fastenrath Award for Solitud (1909).
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The work won the premi Fastenrath, and has been translated into many languages
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And then began her first period of “literary silence”, due to the movement of noucentisme
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“Llibre Blanc-Policromi-Tríptic”
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Bringing the novel much recognition, and making Víctor Català a well-known writer
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“Chapter IV: The Religious Foundations of Worldly Asceticism,”
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Her fixation on the darker aspects of the human condition began to attract criticism
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Her book entitled Drames rurals (rural dramas) was published and the mystery of her pseudonym began to bring her fame
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Published her only collection of monologues, 4 Monòlegs, and began collaborating with the modernist magazine Joventut (1900–1906)
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When she received the Jocs Florals (floral games) prize; soon thereafter, she began using the pseudonym Victor Català, taking it from the protagonist of a novel she never finished
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“It has brought me the greatest sorrow you can imagine, because he was the most handsome little boy for his age that you could find. I feel his death even more than the loss of my own son [Fernando] because he was older and I knew him better and treated him as my own son. Nevertheless we must accept the will of God. May God forgive me, but I wish He had taken Christian instead of his son.”
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Born 1869-09-11.
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