Josep Carles Laínez

Josep Carles Laínez (born 1970) is a Spanish writer who lives in Valencia, Spain and Encamp, Andorra. A graduate of the University of Valencia in Catalan and Spanish Philology and Audio-visual Communication, his main interest is in European minority languages, and he has published original books and/or articles in Catalan, English, Spanish, Occitan, Aragonese and Asturian. He is currently the Editor-in-chief of the literary-philosophical quarterly journal Debats.

In his book of poetry Música junto al río (Music by the River, 2001), he uses a dialectal Valencian-Aragonese from the region of his parents. His book La piedra ente la ñeve (The Stone in the Snow, 2010) is notable as the first Latter-day Saint-related book published in Asturian and the first to use the Deseret alphabet for a language other than English. He has also published a translation of aphorisms from the Asturian into the Spanish language (Ene marginalia, 2003).

Laínez is a columnist for the Andorran newspaper El Periòdic d'Andorra, and has been a visiting professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, University of Puerto Rico, Hofstra University of New York and Komazawa University of Tokyo.

Publications

In Spanish Poetry Exotica martyria, Valencia: Ojuebuey, 1991 Música junto al río, Valencia: Llambert Palmart, 2001. Fiction Alma, Valencia: Ediciones de la Mirada, 1998. Una noche más, Valencia: Llambert Palmart, 2002. Non-Fiction La tumba de Leónidas, Barcelona: Áltera, 2006. Aquí la noche tiene el nombre de Valeria, Valencia: Institució Alfons el Magnànim, 2007.

In Catalan Poetry Dionysiaka, Alzira: Germania, 1995 Anxia, Alzira: Bromera, 2001 Drama Berlín, Valencia: Llambert Palmart, 2001.

In Asturian Poetry La piedra ente la ñeve, Uviéu: Trabe, 2010. Drama Elsa metálico, Uviéu: Academia Llingua Asturiana, 1998. Thule, Uviéu: Academia Llingua Asturiana, 2010.

In Aragonese Poetry En o gudrón espigol xuto, Teruel: Sur Edizions, 1991. Aire de liloileras: (peruigilium veneris), Uesca: Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa, 1992. A besita de l'ánchel, Uesca: Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa, 1994. Bel diya, Uesca: Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa, 1998.