Jaume Grau Casas ( Cat.Jaume Grau Casas ; December 2, 1896 , Barcelona - November 8, 1950 , Valencia ) - Spanish Catalan writer . He is considered the largest poet in the planned language of Esperanto from Catalonia . Essays and diaries from the time of his detention in the southern French internment camps are among the outstanding documents describing the living conditions of that time.
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Esperanto
- 3 Artworks
- 3.1 Esperanto poetry collections
- 3.2 Poems in Catalan
- 3.3 Collection of poems in Spanish
- 3.4 Translations
- 3.5 Tutorials
- 4 References
Biography
Grau Casas was born into a simple family. He worked as an accountant, translator, writer and secretary of the Magistrate of San Quinty de Medion . He took an active part in various social and political movements, including those close to Catalanism . In this regard, after the events of October 6 in Catalonia, he was imprisoned from the end of 1934 to 1935. In 1938, he again went to prison. He wrote recollections of these periods of imprisonment in Catalan in his “Records de la presó” (“Reports from prison”, 1934 and 1935) and “Nous records de la presó” (“New reports from prison”, 1938). Some of these texts were published in newspapers of the time.
After the victory of the Francoists in the Spanish Civil War, he fled to France in February 1939. There he was again arrested and spent five years in various internment camps. In 1944 he was released from custody, and in 1948 he returned back to Catalonia. His recordings from the camps entitled “Ulisses en el fang - Poemes de l'exili” (“Ulysses in the Swamp - Poems from Exile”, 1939-1942) remain unpublished, but are kept in the archive of the Sabadell Esperanto Union.
After returning to Barcelona, he soon moved with his wife to Valencia. Their adult daughter and son stayed in Barcelona. After his Kataluna Antologio (Catalan Anthology), a collection of Catalan literature translated into Esperanto, was published in 1925 and reprinted in 1931, in Valencia he devoted himself to working on Hispana Antologio (Spanish Anthology "). However, this book remained unfinished due to his death at the age of 53 years.
Esperanto
Grau Casas learned Esperanto at the age of eighteen. From 1920 to 1924 he was the editor of the publication Kataluna Esperantisto (Catalan Esperantist) and for a long time was the chairman of the international Esperanto literature contest Internaciaj Floraj Ludoj (International Flower Games). In 1919 and 1936, he even won the grand prize of Natura Floro. Since 1926, he was a member of the Lingva Komitato (Language Committee) and for some time was vice president of Akademio de Esperanto (Academy of Esperanto). At the national level, he was chairman of the Esperanto Society in Barcelona and secretary of the Catalan Union of Esperantists. He taught Esperanto at Ateneu Enciclopèdic Popular (AEP) and wrote two Esperanto textbooks in Catalan.
Artwork
Esperanto poetry collections
- Amaj poemoj (Love Poems), 1924
- Novaj amaj poemoj (New Love Poems), 1927
- La lastaj poemoj (Last verses), 1936
Catalan Poems
- Cançó d'amor i melangia , 1932
- Somni d'uns dies de juny , 1936
Spanish Poetry
- El suplicio de tántalo , 1937
Translations
- Kataluna Antologio , 1925 (chief editor and translator)
- La kataluna popolkanto , 1925 (Catalan folk songs; co-author), (with Joan Amades Gelats)
- Barbaraj prozaĵoj , 1926 (Barbarian prose)
Tutorials
- Llengua auxxiliar internacional esperanto Primer Manual , 1930
- Curs complet de la llengua internacional [Gramatiko, ekzercaro kaj vortaro], 1934
Links
- Interveno de Jordi Grau i Gatell en la omaĝo al sia avo Jaume Grau Casas
- Sutton, Geoffrey. Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto . Mondial 2008, S. 121. ISBN 1-59569-090-5 .