Josep Carles Laínez (born 1970) is a Spanish writer who lives in

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and

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, Andorra. A graduate of the

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in Catalan and Spanish Philology and Audio-visual Communication, his main interest is in European minority languages, and he has published original books and/or articles in Catalan, English, Spanish,

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, Aragonese and Asturian. He is currently the Editor-in-chief of the literary-philosophical quarterly journal ''Debats''. In his book of poetry ''Música junto al río'' (''Music by the River'', 2001), he uses a dialectal Valencian-Aragonese from the region of his parents. His book ''La piedra ente la ñeve'' (''The Stone in the Snow'', 2010) is notable as the first Latter-day Saint-related book published in Asturian and the first to use the

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for a language other than English. He has also published a translation of aphorisms from the Asturian into the Spanish language (''Ene marginalia'', 2003). Laínez is a columnist for the Andorran newspaper ''

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'', and has been a visiting professor at the

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of New York and

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of Tokyo.

Publications

In Spanish

Poetry * ''Exotica martyria'', Valencia: Ojuebuey, 1991 * ''Música junto al río'', Valencia: Llambert Palmart, 2001. Fiction * ''Alma'', Valencia: Ediciones de la Mirada, 1998. * ''Una noche más'', Valencia: Llambert Palmart, 2002. Non-Fiction * ''La tumba de Leónidas'', Barcelona: Áltera, 2006. * ''Aquí la noche tiene el nombre de Valeria'', Valencia: Institució Alfons el Magnànim, 2007.

In Catalan

Poetry * ''Dionysiaka'', Alzira: Germania, 1995 * ''Anxia'', Alzira: Bromera, 2001 Drama * ''Berlín'', Valencia: Llambert Palmart, 2001.

In Asturian

Poetry * ''La piedra ente la ñeve'', Uviéu: Trabe, 2010. Drama * ''Elsa metálico'', Uviéu: Academia Llingua Asturiana, 1998. * ''Thule'', Uviéu: Academia Llingua Asturiana, 2010.

In Aragonese

Poetry * ''En o gudrón espigol xuto'', Teruel: Sur Edizions, 1991. * ''Aire de liloileras: (peruigilium veneris)'', Uesca: Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa, 1992. * ''A besita de l'ánchel'', Uesca: Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa, 1994. * ''Bel diya'', Uesca: Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa, 1998.

References

Bibliography

* Ballester Añón, Rafael, “Poetas de los noventa”, in ''PosData'', ''Levante-EMV'' (Valencia, December 1992). * Barrero, Miguel, “Josep Carles Laínez medita nun llibru sobre l’espíritu de Castiella”, in ''Les Noticies'', 573 (February 2008), p. 17. * Bellveser, Ricardo, ''Vita Nuova. Antología de escritores valencianos en el fin de siglo'', Valencia: Ajuntament de València, 1993, pp. 231, 236. * Bolado García, Xosé, “El Surdimientu. El Teatru”, in RAMOS CORRADA, Miguel (coord.), ''Historia de la Lliteratura Asturiana'', Oviedo: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2002, pp. 706–707. * Cepero I Salat, Carles, “Introducción a un ensayo sobre la evolución de la poesía aragonesa”, in NAGORE LAÍN, Francho, Francho Rodés & Chesús Vázquez, ''Estudios y rechiras arredol de a luenga aragonesa y de a suya literatura'', Huesca, Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses, 1999, pp. 283–298. * Eito Mateo, Antón
"Breve acercamiento a la poesía aragonesa contemporánea"
in ''Ianua'', 1 (). * Llopesa, Ricardo, ''Poetas Valencianos del 90. Antología y diccionario'', Valencia, Instituto de Estudios Modernistas: 2000, pp. 29–31, 102. * Nagore Laín, Francho, “La llengua aragonesa: entre l’extinció i la normativització”, in Miquel-Àngel Pradilla Cardona (coord.), ''Calidoscopi lingüístic. Un debat entorn de les llengües de l’Estat'', Barcelona, Octaedro, 2004, pp. 215–244. * Parra Ruiz, Cristofo Ch., “Os haikus en a poesía feita en aragonés”, in NAGORE LAÍN, Francho (ed.), ''Terzera trobada d’estudios e rechiras arredol d’a luenga aragonesa e a suya literatura'', Huesca, Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses-Consello d’a Fabla Aragonesa, 2004, pp. 279–296. * RodrÍguez Magda, Rosa María, “La poesía en aragonés de Josep Carles Laínez: Generación X, ''American way of life'' y posmodernidad”, in Nagore Laín, Francho (ed.), ''Terzera trobada d’estudios e rechiras arredol d’a luenga aragonesa e a suya literatura'', Huesca, Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses-Consello d’a Fabla Aragonesa, 2004, pp. 379–386.

External links

''Aunque tal vez... ''Personal blog (includes picture) (in Spanish)

Some Other Words Personal blog (includes picture) (in English)
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