Emili Teixidor
Emili Teixidor i Viladecàs (22 December 1932 – 19 June 2012) was a Catalans, Catalan writer, journalist and Pedagogy, pedagogue. He wrote over thirty novels, mainly for children and teenagers, but he is perhaps best known for his acclaimed adult novel, Black Bread (novel), ''Black Bread'' (Catalan: '':ca:Pa_negre, Pa negre''), which inspired a Black Bread, film of the same name. Biography Emili Teixidor was born on 22 December 1932 in the town of Roda de Ter in the Osona region of Catalonia. His mother, Filomena Viladecàs i Planas, was a worker in the local textile factory, and his father, Jaume Teixidó i Corominas, drove a bus. The family’s history was marked by the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent repression. Following the Francoist Spain, Francoist victory and the defeat of the Second Spanish Republic, Spanish Republic, Teixidor’s father was imprisoned by the Fascism, fascists. Unlike so many other Francoist Catalonia, Catalans who opposed Franco, he was fort ...
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Roda De Ter
Roda de Ter () is a municipality in the comarca of Osona, province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, near Vic, on the Ter River above the Sau Reservoir. Population: 5,435 (2004), area: 2.18 km². Its church is dedicated to St. Peter. Main monuments: Pont Vell ("Old Bridge") and the Capella del Sòl del Pont (Chapel of the floor of the Bridge). The Virgin Mary, ''La Mare de Déu del Sòl del Pont'' is the patron of the village. On the site of an Iberian town a Roman villa was established. In its later fortified state it existed until 826, when was destroyed by Aissó, in revolt against the Frankish count Bernat of Septimania. Many years passed before it was repopulated and grew slowly. The fierce independence of the mountain people of northern Catalonia manifested itself in banditry in which villagers were encouraged to participate, even by their silence, by a share in the takings. The bandit leaders might be peasants or local noblemen. On one occasion in 1646, the whole of the ...
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