Màrius Torres (; 30 August 1910 – 29 October 1942) was a
Catalan
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From, or related to Catalonia:
* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
Places
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poet
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, first published by fellow writer
Joan Sales in
Mexico
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. He was among the most influential poets in the first 30 years of post-Civil War Catalonia and is today considered one of the most important Catalan poets of the twentieth century.
The son of physician and politician
Humbert Torres, he studied at the
Liceu Escolar in Lleida from 1920 to 1926 and earned a degree in Medicine from the
University of Barcelona
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. He used the pen name Gregori Sastre to sign his works during the
Spanish Civil War
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, while he was confined in several anti-
tuberculosis
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hospitals. He died in 1942 and was buried in Sant Quirze Safaja.
Today there is a public high school in his home city which is called
Institut Màrius Torres.
Works
* ''Poesies'', at "Quaderns de l'exili",
Mexico DF 1947.
See also
*
Catalan literature
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References
External links
Màrius Torres at Escriptors.cat*
Màrius Torres a Lo Càntich
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1910 births
1942 deaths
People from Lleida
Catalan-language poets
20th-century deaths from tuberculosis
Tuberculosis deaths in Spain
University of Barcelona alumni
20th-century Spanish poets