Died 1981-04-23.
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Josep Pla
Josep Pla i Casadevall was a Spanish journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles in Catalan and Spanish.
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culture · Spanish journalist and writer · writer · journalist · literary critic · novelist · also Josep Pla, Josep Pla i Casadevall, José Pla y Casadevall, José Pla, Jose Pla y Casadevall, Jose Pla
Born 8 March 1897 · Died 23 April 1981 · Q740256
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1981· 2 entries
In his native Empordà, leaving thirty-eight volumes (over twenty-five thousand pages) of Obra Completa (Complete Works) published, and many unedited papers that have been published since his death
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1980· 4 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit (1980).
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Awarded Serra d'Or Critics' Prize for Literature and Essays (1980).
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Won Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia (1980).
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Near the end of his life, Josep Tarradellas gave him the Medalla d'Or de la Generalitat de Catalunya (the Gold Medal of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia)
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded City of Barcelona Award (1979).
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Serra d'Or Critics' Prize for Literature and Essays (1977).
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded Serra d'Or Critics' Prize for Literature and Essays (1973).
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Serra d'Or Critics' Prize for Literature and Essays for The Grey Notebook (1967).
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Awarded Fill Predilecte de Palafrugell (1967).
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1966· 1 entry
Ediciones Destino began the publication of this series
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Gold Letter (1957).
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1951· 1 entry
Awarded Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la (1951).
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1947· 1 entry
As soon as censorship was lifted, he returned to publishing in Catalan (Cadaqués, one of his most successful books)
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1940· 1 entry
That it was "in the general interest"), his support only lasted a few months
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1936· 1 entry
Awarded Premi Concepció Rabell (1936).
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1927· 1 entry
Returned to Spain, left La Publicidad and began to collaborate with La Veu de Catalunya, the Lliga Regionalista's newspaper of a liberal-conservative tendency, under the orders of Francesc Cambó – leader of moderate C
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1925· 1 entry
Published his first book, Coses Vistes which was a great success and sold out in a week
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1921· 1 entry
Was elected as a diputado (Member of Parliament) of the Commonwealth of Catalonia (Commonwealth of Catalonia) by the Lliga Regionalista (Regionalist League) in his native region, Baix Empordà
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1919· 2 entries
Graduated with a degree in Law and began to work in journalism, first in Las Noticias (The News) and soon after in night publication of La Publicidad (Publicity)
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Studied at University of Barcelona (1913–1919).
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1913· 1 entry
Registered to study science at the University of Barcelona and began his studies in medicine but in the middle of his first course, he changed his mind and registered to study law
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1909· 1 entry
Was a boarding student at the Colegio de los Maristas (Marist School)
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1897· 1 entry
Born 1897-03-08.
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