Max Roqueta (
Argelliers, December 8, 1908 – June 22, 2005)
was one of the most famous contemporary
Occitan Occitan may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Occitania territory in parts of France, Italy, Monaco and Spain.
* Something of, from, or related to the Occitania administrative region of France.
* Occitan language, spoken in parts o ...
writers. A physician, he was also an activist (he had been president of the
Institut d'Estudis Occitans The Institut d'Estudis Occitans (English: Occitan Studies Institute or Institute for Occitan Studies; ), or IEO, is a cultural association that was founded in 1945 by a group of Occitan and French writers including Jean Cassou, Tristan Tzara, Isma ...
from 1952 to 1957).
Works
Prose
* ''Secrèt de l’èrba'' (1934)
* ''Sòmnis dau matin'' (1940)
* ''Sòmnis de la nuòch'' (1942)
* ''L’Ataüt d’Arnautz Daniel'' (1949)
* ''La Pietat dau matin'' (1963)
* ''Vèrd Paradís'' (1961)
* ''Vèrd Paradís II'' (1974)
* ''Lo Maucòr de l'unicòrn'' (1992)
* ''D'aicí mil ans de lutz'' (1995)
Poetry
* ''Lo Mètge de Cucunhan'' (1958)
* ''Lo Manit e los encants'' (1996)
* ''Tota la sabla de la mar'' (1997)
* ''Lo Corbatàs roge'' (1997)
References
External links
a webstite devoted to Max RouquetteJ-F. Brun's pages about Occitan literatureObituary in ''Libération''
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Occitan-language writers
1908 births
2005 deaths
Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres