Màrius Torres (; 30 August 1910 – 29 October 1942) was a Catalan

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, first published by fellow writer Joan Sales in

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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

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. He used the pen name Gregori Sastre to sign his works during the

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, while he was confined in several anti-

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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",

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1947.

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Màrius Torres at Escriptors.cat
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Màrius Torres a Lo Càntich
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