Carles Duarte i Montserrat

Carles Duarte i Montserrat (Barcelona, September 16, 1959) is a Catalan poet, linguist and politician, brother of the historian Àngel Duarte Montserrat.

Biography During his time at the University of Barcelona, he stood out for his concerns focused on the field of linguistics and poetry. He began writing poetry in Spanish in September 1973 following the coup d'état in Chile and the death of President Salvador Allende and Pablo Neruda. After a couple of years he started writing in Catalan and with a group of friends they started the literary magazine Maig in 1979. Seven issues were published, where the first poems in Catalan that he made known appeared, some of which would end up being integrated into his book Vida endins.

In 1981 he obtained his degree in Catalan philology and, finally, stood out in 1984 by presenting a thesis in which he carefully studied the legal vocabulary of the Book of Customs of Tortosa.

During the period 1978–1981 he was secretary of the Catalan Language Courses and of the Sociolinguistic Commission at the University of Barcelona. In 1979, under a study carried out jointly with Professor Antoni M. Badia and Margarit, he published his first work entitled Administrative form: applied especially to the University, consisting of a study on the establishment of administrative language. His dedication to linguistics continued with the book Synthesis of the history of the Catalan language in 1981, prepared together with Maria Àngels Massip i Bonet. That same year, Carles Duarte will enter the Public Administration School of Catalonia, where he will work until 1989.

One of the most outstanding events in his biography will be the professional and friendly relationship he will maintain with professor Joan Coromines,

He is currently the general director of the Cultural Institution of the CIC and is a member of the Board of the Barcelonesa Economic Society of Friends of the Country. He also directed the Lluís Carulla Foundation until 2016, and was secretary of the Circle of the Museum of the History of the City of Barcelona and patron of the Amics del MNAC foundation. Since December 2011 he has been part of the Cultural Council of the city of Barcelona. L'Ajuntament aprova els noms dels nous membres del ple del Consell de la Cultura de Barcelona | ACN | Barcelona | Cultura | El Punt Avui in 2007 he received the Cross of Sant Jordi.

Work

As a writer, he has been included in volume IV of the Anthology of Catalan poets by professors Martí de Riquer, Giuseppe Grilli and Giuseppe Sansone, in the anthology Non à la guerre, published in France with the poet Lionel Ray as literary manager, and the current Catalan poetry Anthology published in Buenos Aires by Alberto José Miyara; a Paraula encesa, an anthology of Catalan poetry from the last hundred years, edited by Pere Ballart and Jordi Julià, in Thirty-four Catalan poets for the XXI century, by Emilio Coco, in the anthology Poeti spagnoli contemporanei, also edited by Emilio Coco, ia 20 of the XX. Catalan poets, published in 2013 by Jordi Virallonga in Monterrey (Mexico). He has participated in the Barcelona International Poetry Festival (1998) and has read poems in Catalonia, Reykjavik, Melbourne, Paris, Bordeaux, Buenos Aires, Rosario, Rome, Verona, Alghero, Neptú (Romania), Madrid, Murcia, Zaragoza.. . He has prefaced and presented books by various authors.

Poetry He self-defines his style as "a poetry that seeks the breath of a bare music, tends to the clear rhythm of what is essential, to expressive purification. The landscape and cultural references of the Mediterranean are constantly present. And it has as its central themes tenderness (skin, desire, knowledge through touch...), sleep (as the engine of existence, as a subjective and personal reading of what happens, as a territory where creativity moves more freely...) and oblivion (as the extinction of memory, as an incessant horizon that devours everything that exists...)". El Vallenc National Award (2013): for his cultural career. Ramon Fuster Award (2014), awarded by the Official College of Doctors and Bachelors in Philosophy and Letters and Sciences of Catalonia : for his civic, cultural and literary career. Prize of the Catalan Poetry Critic (2014): Alba del vespre .