Narcís Oller i de Moragas (; 10 August 1846, in

Valls Valls () is a city and municipality in the province of Tarragona in Catalonia, Spain. According to the 2014 census it has a population of 24,570. Valls is known for its calçots – a type of scallion or green onion – and the human towers tradi ...

– 26 July 1930, in

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

) was a Catalan writer, most noted for the novels ''La papallona'' (The Butterfly) which appeared with a foreword by

Émile Zola Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, also , ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of ...

in the French translation; his most well-known work ''L'Escanyapobres'' (''The Usurer''); and ''La febre d'or'' (''Gold Fever'') which is set in

during the period of promoterism. His novel ''La bogeria'' has been translated into English by Douglas Suttle under the title ''The Madness'', published by Fum d'Estampa Press, 15 September 2020. He also translated the works of

Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...

and Dumas.

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Narcís Oller
at the Association of Catalan Language Writers. * * 1846 births 1930 deaths People from Valls Renaixença writers Novelists from Catalonia Catalan-language writers {{Catalonia-writer-stub