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Àlex Susanna is a poet, publisher and cultural manager. He has directed several cultural institutions: the publishing house Columna (1985-1999), the Culture Department of the Ramon Llull Institute (public agency in charge of promoting Catalan culture abroad, 2002 to 2004), and he currently directs the Caixa Catalunya Foundation, based in Gaudí’s La Pedrera building. In
1984 he founded the International Poetry Festival of Barcelona, which he led until 2000. He is a member of the European Academy of Poetry.
As a poet, he has published 12 books, which have merited several awards, noteworthy among which are Memòria del cos (1980) (The Body’s Memory), Palau d’hivern (1987)(Winter Palace), Les anelles dels anys (1991)(The Rings of Years), Suite de Gelida (2001)(Useless Poetry) and Angles Morts (2007) (Dead Angles). As a prose writer, he has published journals such as Quadern venecià (1989)(Venetian Notebook) or Quadern dels marges (2006) (The Margins Notebook ). Of note among his translations are Monsieur Teste by Paul Valéry (1980) and Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot (1984).
The poetry of Àlex Susanna “achieves the difficult feat of turning the everyday life of the adult into poetry: work and family, free of utopias, free of pipe dreams, having already forged an identity, having found a place in the world, still far from an attempt at a farewell which is old age.”

SELECTED WORKS
FICTION
· Quadern venecià
(Destino, 1989) [‘Venetian Notebook’].
· Quadern de Fornells
(Columna, 1995) [‘Notebook of Fornells’].
· Quadern d’ombres
(Columna, 1999) [‘Notebook of shadows’].
POETRY
· De l’home quan no hi veu
(El Mall, 1979) [‘About man, when he’s blind’].
· Memòria del cos
(La Gaia Ciència, 1980) [‘The Body’s Memory’].
· El dies antics
(El mall, 1982) [‘The old days’].
· El darrer sol
(Proa, 1985) [‘The last sun’].
· Palau d’hivern
(Columna, 1987) [‘Winter palace’].
· Les anelles dels anys
(Proa, 1991) [‘The rings of years’].
· Boscos i ciutats
(Columna, 1994) [‘Entering the cold’].
· Suite de Gelida
(Proa, 2001) [‘Useless poetry’].
· Angles morts
(Proa, 2007) [‘Dead angles’].

LATEST WORKS IN TRANSLATION
ENGLISH
· Entering the Cold [‘Boscos i ciutats’], tr. Pat Boran. Dublin: Poetry Ireland, 1998.
· Forgotten Music [Anthology], tr. Pat Boran. Dublin: Dedalus, 2003.
FRENCH
· Angles morts, tr. Bernard Lesfargues. Gardona: Fédérop, 2008.
· Carnet vénitien suivi de Palais d’hiver et La ville des extêmes [‘Quadern venecià’, ‘Palau d’hivern’], tr. Patrick Gifreu. Perpinyà: Mare Nostrum, 1993.
· Inutile poésie [‘Suite de Gelida’], tr. Bernard Lesfargues. Gardona: Fédérop, 2001.
· Les cernes du temps [‘Les anelles dels anys’], tr. Bernard Lesfargues. Gardona: Fédérop, 1999.
· Principe du froid [‘Boscos i ciutats’], tr. Claude Esteban. Grâne: Créaphis, 1999.
GALICIAN
· Trece poetas cataláns [Anthology], tr. Xavier Rodríguez Baixeras. A Coruña: Espiral Maior, 1995.
ITALIAN
· Poeti spagnoli contemporanei [Anthology], tr. Coco Emilio. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2008.
PORTUGUESE
· Quinze poetas catalães [Anthology], tr. Egito Gonçalves. Porto: Limiar, 1994.
· Os anéis do tempo [‘Les anelles del anys’; ‘Palau d’hivern’], tr. Egito Gonçalves. Porto: Limiar, 1995.
RUSSIAN
· Tieny drugogo moria: sovremennaia katalonskaia poesia [Anthology], tr. Elena Zernova. Sant Petersburg: University Press, 2000.
· 40 poslie 39 [Anthology], tr. Elena Zernova. Sant Petersburg: Sankt Petersburgskogo Universiteta, 2002.
SERBO-CROATIAN
· Posljednje sunce [‘El darrer sol’], Jadranka Vrsalovic-Carevic. Zagreb: Organizacija za znanstveni i istra zivacki Rad, 1988.
SPANISH
· Los días antiguos [‘Els dies antics’], tr. Adolfo García Ortega. Granada: Diputación Provincial, 1989.
· Cuaderno veneciano [‘Quadern venecià’], tr. Basilio Losada Castro. Barcelona: Versal, 1990.
· Los anillos de los años [‘Les anelles dels anys’], tr. Luís García Montero. Bilbao: Instituto Vasco de las Artes y las Letras, 1993.
· Veintiún poetas catalanes para el siglo XXI [Anthology], tr. José Agustín Goytisolo. Barcelona: Lumen, 1996.
· Antología de la poesía catalana actual [Anthology], tr. Alberto José Miyara. Buenos Aires: Libros de Tierra Firme, 1999.
· Casas y cuerpos [‘Palau d’hivern’, ‘Les anelles dels anys’,‘Boscos i ciutats’]. Valladolid: Fundación Jorge Guillén, 2001.
· Inútil poesía [‘Suite de Gelida’], tr. Ángel Guinda. Zaragoza: Olifante, 2002.
· Nosotros y los dioses, tr. Rosa Mª Prats de la Iglesia. Rubí: Antropos Editorial, 2005.
· Libro de los márgenes [‘Quadern dels marges’], tr. Rosa Mª Prats de la Iglesia. Barcelona: Seix Barral, 2006
SWEDISH
· Katalanks höst Malmö-Lund [Anthology], tr. Lasse Söderberg. Lund: Ellerströms, 1993.