Renat Nelli (), who was born in

Carcassonne Carcassonne (, also , , ; ; la, Carcaso) is a French fortified city in the department of Aude, in the region of Occitanie. It is the prefecture of the department. Inhabited since the Neolithic, Carcassonne is located in the plain of the ...

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in 1906 and died in 1982, was one of the major

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writers of the 20th century. In

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, Nelli joined the French Resistance and in 1945 was one of the co-founders of the Institut d'Estudis Occitans. He also co-wrote the special issue of the '' Cahiers du Sud'' magazine on "the Genius of Òc and the Mediterranean Man" (1943), in which the three main lines of his literary mission stand out: the publication and translation of

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Occitan poets; publishing his own poems; and being a critic. His collections are marked with sensuality and draw their inspiration from the mystical traditions of

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and trobadors. He later tried his hand at prose and drama. Renat Nelli is known in French as René Nelli.

Works

* ''Entre l’espèr e l’abséncia'' (''Between Hope and Absence''), 1942 * ''Arma de vertat'' (''A Soul for Real''), 1952 * ''Vespèr e la luna dels fraisses'' (''Vespèr and the Moon of the Ash Trees''), 1962 * ''L'érotique des troubadours'', Toulouse, Privat, 1963 (& 10/18 - 2 vol. - 1974) * ''Beatrís de Planissòlas'', 1972, a play * ''Per una nuèit d'estieu'' (''On a Summer Night''), 1976 {{DEFAULTSORT:Nelli, Renat 1906 births 1982 deaths People from Carcassonne Occitan-language writers French Resistance members 20th-century French historians category:Historians of Catharism