Renada-Laura Portet

Renada-Laura Portet was the pen name of Renada-Laura Calmon-Ouillet (28 August 1927 – 5 September 2021) a Northern Catalonia writer and linguist of Occitania origin. She was one of the most important literary voices in Northern Catalonia. Portet cultivated the genres of poetry, short story, novel, drama, and essays, as well as scientific or research writing on topics such as linguistics, toponymy, or onomastics. She used several other pseudonyms including, "Caterina Martí", "Isabel Rosselló", "Vicenta Pallarès", "Toni Vidaló" and "Ramon Oliver".

Biography Renada-Laura Calmon-Ouillet was born in Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet, Pyrénées-Orientales, France, 28 August 1927.

She earned a degree in Romance Letters and Languages from the University of Montpellier. Portet's doctoral studies were in Romance philology.

Death and legacy In 1991, the filmmaker-author Robert Guisset made a literary film portrait entitled Renada'Song dedicated to the author. 1976, Natural Flower, at the Floral Games of the Catalan Language in Perpignan, for Poemes 1981, Vila de Perpinyà-Modest Sabaté, for Els noms de lloc del Rosselló 2004, Creu de Sant Jordi 2017, On the occasion of her 90th birthday, the Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia, the Institute of Catalan Studies, and the Institution of Catalan Letters paid tribute to his literary career and commitment.

Selected works

Poetry collections 1990, Jocs de convit 1992, Una ombra anomenada oblit 1994, El cant de la Sibil·la 2017, N'hom

Short story collections 2004, Una dona t'escriu

Prose 1981, Castell negre 1983, L'escletxa 2002, Rigau & Rigaud

Non-fiction 1981, Els noms de lloc del Rosselló 1983, Toponímia rossellonesa