JAUME SUBIRANA (Barcelona, 1963)
Jaume Subirana is a poet, translator, lecturer in literature and cultural manager. He has published poetry (Rapala is the latest volume, 2007) and prose, and has edited various works on Catalan literature and the city of Barcelona. He has translated novels, poetry and song lyrics from English. Subirana was a member of the board of PEN Català and founded and directed the website Lletra at the Open University of Catalonia. From 2004
to 2006 he was Director of the Institute of Catalan Literature. As an editor, he produced Wilkommen in Katalonien (DTV, 2007) and New Catalan Fiction (The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Dalkey Archive, Spring 2008), two selections of contemporary Catalan narrative. He keeps a blog entitled Flux.
Subirana’s latest book has deserved critiques such as the following, by Pere Calonge: “Rapala uses a diversity of poetic forms to devise condense clean texts; poems of a great precision, brief but intense, like small bubbles which burst in the reader, thereby exuding a sensation, an image, an idea. And with the art of fishing as a metaphor which is fairly apparent, though present throughout his books of poems: on occasion, as a solid basis of the poetic exercise; at other times, just the starting point, the stimulus. A metaphor for heedful observation, for he who can see beyond the surface; a metaphor for perseverance, for patience that fishing for the right word also calls for”.
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SELECTED WORKS
FICTION
· No som perfectes
(Proa, 1992) [‘We’re not perfect’].
· Per a què serveix un escriptor?
(Proa, 1998) [‘What’s a writer for?’].
· Suomenlinna
(Proa, 2000).
· Adrada
(Ed. 62, 2005).
POETRY
· Pel viure extrem
(Proa, 1985) [‘For the extreme living’].
· Final de festa
(Proa, 1989) [‘The end of the party’].
· El rastre de l’animal més lliure
(Proa, 1994) [‘The trail of the most free animal’].
· En altres coses
(Ed. 62 - Empúries, 2002) [‘In another things’].
· Rapala
(Ed. 62, 2008).
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LATEST WORKS IN TRANSLATION
RUSSIAN
· 40 poslie 39 [Anthology], tr. Elena Zernova. Sant Petersburg: Sankt Petersburgskogo Universiteta, 2002.
SPANISH
· El rastro del animal más libre, tr. José Maria Parreño. Alzira: Germanía, 2001.
· Sol de sal la nueva poesía catalana (antología 1976-2001), tr. Jordi Virallonga. Barcelona: DVD Ediciones, 2001.
· He decidido seguir viviendo... [Anthology], tr. José Bru & Jorge Souza. Mexico: Universidad de Guadalajara, 2004.
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